The determinants of foreign trade development in the People's Republic of Bangladesh

Md Ismail Mia

Master's thesis

Abstract:

Bangladesh became independent after the liberation war in 1971. From 1971 to 1989 Bangladesh had been suffered a great economic crisis due to political unitability and military government. Bangladesh has been developing economic and trade relations with the world since 1990 and become a notable country for economic development and continuous growth of economy among the nations of the world. At present Bangladesh is one of the world's fastest-growing economy in the world and has been recognized as an ideal for continuous development of economic growth. Bangladesh cooperates in foreign trade with various countries for economic growth such as the USA, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, China, India, and so on. And Bangladesh is a member of the world trade organization, World Bank, IMF, SAARC, ASEM, SAFTA, BIMSTEC, etc. In this master thesis, foreign trade development and its impact on economic growth have been analyzed. And also examine the main trade partners of Bangladesh in 1990 as well as 2019 along with the territorial structure of foreign trade partner of Bangladesh. The analysis covers the period from 1990 to 2019. The analysis has been performed by the regression model. According to this analysis dependent variables FDI, net export has a strong impact on the economic growth of the people‘s republic of Bangladesh.

Keywords

Bangladesh, Foreign Trade, Economic growth, Regression analysis, Export, Import, Territorial structure

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 29. 3. 2022

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: Mgr. Elena Kuzmenko, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Master programme / field:
Economics and Management / Economics and Management