Bangladesh Business Forecast Report

Published: January 12 2010 Quarterly   

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The Bangladesh Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Bangladesh.

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Report Description

The Bangladesh Business Forecast Report helps businesses with Bangladeshi market assessment, strategic planning and decision making to promote growth and profitability in Bangladesh and is an essential tool for CEOs, Chairmen, Finance Directors/CFOs, Managing Directors, Marketing/Sales Directors with commercial interests in this emerging market.

An influential new analysis of Bangladesh's political, economic and financial prospects through end-2014, just published by award-winning forecasters, Business Monitor International.

Key Uses

  • Forecast the pace and stability of Bangladesh's economic and industry growth through end-2014
  • Identify and evaluate adverse political and economic trends in Bangladesh, to facilitate risk mitigation
  • Assess the critical shortcomings of Bangladesh's business environment that pose hidden barriers and costs to corporate profitability
  • Contextualise Bangladesh's country risks against regional peers using BMI's country comparative risk ratings system
  • Target business opportunities in Bangladesh's high-growth industry sectors
  • Evaluate external threats to doing business in Bangladesh, including currency volatility, the commodity price boom and protectionist policies

The Bangladesh Business Forecast Report by Business Monitor International (BMI) includes three major sections: Bangladesh's Political Outlook, Bangladesh's Economic Outlook, and Bangladesh's Business Environment.

Bangladesh's Political Outlook:

What are the political risks to doing business in Bangladesh over the next 5-years?

BMI's Bangladesh Country Risk Ratings evaluate the short- and medium-term threats posed by government instability, adverse economic policy-making, deterioration in the business environment and external shocks.

Bangladesh Political Outlook Contents

  • SWOT Analysis for the Bangladeshi Market
    Political strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing Bangladesh.
  • Political Stability and Risk Assessment for Bangladesh
    BMI's Risk Ratings assess explicit short and long-term risks to political stability; latest ratings, rankings and trends for Bangladesh's risk are compared with regional and global averages.
  • Current Administration and Policy-making in Bangladesh
    BMI profiles key policy-makers and power-brokers in the Bangladeshi government, assessing threats to the continuity of Bangladeshi economic policy, and likely changes to the business operating environment through end-2018.
  • Bangladeshi Foreign Policy
    BMI examines key trends and shifts in Bangladesh's foreign relations and alignments with regional neighbours, the United States and Europe, focusing on external influences.

Key Benefits

  • Benchmark Bangladesh's risk profile against its neighbours, the global and regional average, allowing easy comparison of risks between key business markets.
  • Identify, evaluate and anticipate political and security risks to the business environment in Bangladesh, and to your company's current operations and future plans.
  • Gain valuable insights into the Bangladeshi government and policy-making, through BMI's specialist team of analysts and economists, and their exclusive network of private and public sector sources.

Bangladesh's Economic Outlook:

How will Bangladeshi economic policy-making and performance impact on corporate profitability over 2009-2014?

BMI provides our fully independent 5-year forecasts for Bangladesh through end-2014 for more than 35 macroeconomic variables. We evaluate Bangladeshi growth, and also forecast the impact of economic management, including central bank policy, on profitability.

Bangladesh Economic Outlook Contents

The Bangladesh Business Forecast Report features explicit BMI economic forecasts for country, with supporting commentary and analysis, for end-2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 set against Bangladeshi government views. Underpinning our Bangladesh forecasts are key assumptions for the global economy through end-2014, covering growth, inflation, employment, trade and investment, interest and exchange rates in the US, Japan and the Euro-zone.

Coverage of Key Economic Issues in Bangladesh

  • Economic Activity in Bangladesh
    Real GDP growth; industrial growth; employment growth; inflation and consumer prices; consumption (indicative wages, retail sales, consumer confidence)
  • Fiscal Policy in Bangladesh
    Current macroeconomic strategy and implementation policies; government finance (revenue, expenditure, budget balance); tax reforms
  • Monetary Policy in Bangladesh
    Interest rate trends (bank lending and deposit rates); inflation (retail price inflation, consumer price inflation); exchange rate policy in country; currency controls; influence of foreign direct investment inflows; exchange rates and foreign exchange reserves
  • Balance of Payments in Bangladesh
    Merchandise trade (exports, imports, trade balance); current and capital account balances
  • Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh
    Foreign direct investment approvals and inflows; the foreign investment climate
  • Bangladeshi External Debt
    Debt profile (short- and long-term debt; public and private sector exposure)

Key Benefits

  • Rely upon BMI's 100% independent Forecast Scenarios for Bangladesh and underlying assumptions - we take no advertising and are privately-owned.
  • Exploit the benefits of BMI's comprehensive and reliable macroeconomic database on Bangladesh, sourced and fully maintained by BMI from an extensive network of private sector, government and multilateral contacts.
  • Gain key insights into the current and future direction of Bangladeshi government economic policy

Bangladesh's Business Environment:

Bangladesh's Business Environment Risk Rating with SWOT Analysis

Short- and long-term business environment risk ratings for Bangladesh, benchmarked against ratings for regional neighbours.

Country Competitiveness for Bangladesh
Competitiveness of Bangladesh's business operating environment in supporting corporate growth and profitability over the 5-year forecast horizon, compared with regional neighbours.

Bangladesh Business Environment Contents

  • Bangladesh's Domestic Environment.
    Transparency, cronyism and corruption; labour market flexibility; corporate tax burden; interest rate levels; access of private sector to lines of credit; sophistication of banking sector and stock market; levels of business confidence; infrastructure and IT
  • Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh
    Analysis of foreign investment regime, foreign ownership laws; attractiveness of business environment to foreign investors; review of major foreign direct investments over the last 24 months, and of strategic sectors attracting most interest
  • Foreign Trade with Bangladesh
    Analysis of trading environment, government trade policy, liberalisation measures, tariffs and membership of trade areas

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