Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""PREFACE""; ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS""; ""SUMMARY""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Figure 1 GDP growth rate and inflation""; ""Part I TRENDS IN GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL PROGRESS ""; ""A. MAIN FEATURES OF TRADE POLICIES""; ""The reduction of import barriers""; ""Table 1 Import liberalization""; ""Export policy""; ""Export processing zones as a development strategy""; ""Table 2 Trade and investment of EPZs in Bangladesh, 1991/92â€?95/96""; ""Trade agreements""; ""The exchange rate system and capital flows""; ""B. TRADE AND INVESTMENT FLOWS""; ""Exports""
  • ""Table 3 Direction of exports and imports by country, 1990/91â€?95/96""""Figure 2 Exports and imports of goods and services (year ending June 30)""; ""Figure 3 Exports by main products, 1979/80â€?96/97 (as a percentage of total exports)""; ""Imports""; ""External debt and foreign aid""; ""2001 Table 4 Foreign direct investment by major industrial group registered with the BOI, 1990/ 91â€? 97/ 98 (US millions)""; ""Figure 4 Foreign direct investment in Bangladesh by origin and industry""; ""C. OVERVIEW OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS SINCE TRADE AND INVESTMENT LIBERALIZATION""
  • ""Labour market developments""""Figure 5 Composition of the population, 1989 and 1995/96 (using extended definition of the labour force)""; ""Figure 6 Employment trends (persons aged 10 years and over)""; ""Table 5 Unemployment rate by area, sex, age and education (usual and extended definitions)""; ""Table 6 Labour force participation rate by sex and area, 1989 and 1995/96 (usual and extended definitions, persons aged 10 and over)""; ""Table 7 Underemployment and hours worked, 1995/96 (persons aged 15 and over, extended definition)""; ""Table 8 Child labour characteristics (aged 5â€?14)""
  • ""Figure 7 Status in employment, 1989 and 1995/96 (using extended definition of the labour force, aged 10 years and over)""""Education""; ""Wage developments""; ""Table 9 Education level and literacy rate of the labour force, 1995/96 (extended definition)""; ""Poverty, income distribution and other social indicators""; ""Figure 8 Trends in real wages,1 1982/83â€?96/97 (1969/70=100)""; ""Table 10 Incidence of poverty, 1988/89-95/96 (percentage of population below the poverty line)""; ""Figure 9 Gini index 1 of income inequality, 1983/84â€?95/96""; ""Notes""
  • ""Part II ASSESSING THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION""""A. COMPARISON OF LABOUR MARKET DEVELOPMENTS BEFORE AND AFTER TRADE LIBERALIZATION""; ""Figure 10 Trends in savings and investment, 1988/89â€?97/98 (as a percentage of GDP)""; ""Figure 10 Trends in savings and investment, 1988/89â€?97/98 (as a percentage of GDP)""; ""Figure 11 Coverage of imports of goods and services, 1979/80â€?96/97 (exports of goods and services, workersâ€? remittances and other sources of import financing""; ""Table 11 Revealed comparative advantage, 1990 and 1995""