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Manufacturing Sector of Bangladesh and West Bengal

In: Two Bengals

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  • Munim Kumar Barai

    (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU))

  • Arindam Banik

    (International Management Institute)

  • Sampada Kumar Dash

    (International Management Institute)

  • Helal Uddin

    (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)

Abstract

The manufacturing sector is considered a growth engine in the two Bengals. When Bangladesh achieved independence, it was an agriculture-dependent country. It started transforming in the 1980s when the service sector’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contribution overtook the agriculture sector’s GDP. In the 2010s, the manufacturing sector surpassed the agricultural sector in terms of GDP contribution, thanks to the readymade garments (RMG) industry. This chapter finds that though the worker per capita value added is stagnating, Bangladesh has seen the emergence of other manufacturing areas like leather products, pharmaceuticals, shipbuilding, real estate construction, etc. As for West Bengal, studies show there has been a deceleration of the manufacturing sector. This has impacted employment and output. We find that capital productivity in the manufacturing sector has declined while labour productivity has increased. However, the latter has increased mainly due to a few industry groups, which are highly capital-intensive and have contributed around 85 per cent of the profit of the entire manufacturing sector. More interestingly, the total factor productivity (TFP) of the West Bengal manufacturing sector as a whole has been declining, while it has been increasing in the case of India.

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  • Munim Kumar Barai & Arindam Banik & Sampada Kumar Dash & Helal Uddin, 2023. "Manufacturing Sector of Bangladesh and West Bengal," Springer Books, in: Arindam Banik & Munim Kumar Barai (ed.), Two Bengals, chapter 0, pages 83-107, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-99-2185-0_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-2185-0_4
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