{"title":"Bangladesh’s Development Goals and Japanese FDI: Prospects and Challenges","authors":"Abdullah Al Mamun","doi":"10.12792/jmti.10.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12792/jmti.10.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"Bangladesh has set a number of goals to become a developed country by 2041. The country has heavy reliance on foreign aid which is around 35 percent of the Annual Development Programme. However,, due to the Covid-19 and Ukraine-Russia war international aid basket is shrinking. On the other hand, owing to the recent international economic disorder the country is encountering several economic problems which include reduction of remittances and foreign currency reserve, serious trade imbalance, higher commodity price, devaluation of Taka against USD and inflation. In this background, Bangladesh's economic recovery and achievements of development goals need alternative financial sources such as FDI. Understandably, the 8th Five Year Plan of the country targets an increse of FDI from 1% of GDP to 3%. Although the government is trying to improve the FDI environment , the progress remains stagnant. Japanese FDI in the country is increasing in spite of having a number of difficulties. However, apparently no comprehensive study has yet been conducted to examine the growth of Japanese FDI in Bangladesh and its impacts on the economic growth of the country. This qualitative study, therefore, investigates probable contribution of Japanese FDI in Bangladesh and the prospects and challenges associated with it. Analysing a myriad of documents and 15 key informants' interview, this study suggests that Japanese FDI can contribute to materialize Bangladesh's development goals if the existing challenges are addressed. The initiatives can also pave the way for many different countries to invest in Bangladesh.","PeriodicalId":484344,"journal":{"name":"Journal of management and training for industries","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135788975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FDI Inflows and Global Value Chains in the ASEAN in Recent Years","authors":"Sanchita Chatterjee","doi":"10.12792/jmti.10.2.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12792/jmti.10.2.59","url":null,"abstract":"The current paper studies whether foreign direct investment (FDI) stocks led to higher linkages along regional and global value chains (R-GVC) in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) against the backdrop of the developments such as entry into force of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical events and growth of sectors such as those related to sustainability, health and electronics. It finds that high FDI has accompanied high R-GVC linkages in the recent years and FDI stock is a statistically significant predictor of R-GVCs in the ASEAN. The paper argues the ASEAN countries, though in favourable FDI and R-GVC situations, must adopt strategies to move up the value chains. Further analysis of the nature of R-GVC linkages of the ASEAN should provide insights on future policies.","PeriodicalId":484344,"journal":{"name":"Journal of management and training for industries","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135788973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Japanese Foreign Direct Investment and ASEAN Trade Development","authors":"Aslam Mohamed, San Yee Liew","doi":"10.12792/jmti.10.2.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12792/jmti.10.2.37","url":null,"abstract":"The ASEAN economy developed rapidly since the 1980s largely due to heavy inflows of foreign direct investment. With the introduction of an export-oriented industries (EOI) development strategy in the late 1960s, the region economy punches above its weight globally in terms of both exports and FDI inflows. The region has been a leading destination for multinational enterprises from all parts of the world for at least three decades. Japan was a main contributor of FDI in ASEAN. One of the reasons expansion of EOI industries and trade are due to the investment from Japanese MNCs. However the emergence of China as a economic power house has affected inflow of FDI. The world and Japan FDI have diverted from ASEAN to China. This had caused a drop of economic growth rate and dented expansion of manufacturing sector primely. This paper plan to explore FDI in ASEAN. Also to examine descriptively the role of Japanese direct investment in ASEAN and how does the investment associated to trade development.","PeriodicalId":484344,"journal":{"name":"Journal of management and training for industries","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135788974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}