Exercise on Report Writing

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Foreign direct investment has a positive impact on the productivity of local firms. A number of significant policy reforms like: Industrial Policy, PRSP (Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper), Millennium Development Goal (MDG) are designed to create a more open and competitive climate for foreign investment. Recently foreign investors are being motivated to invest in the RMG (ready made garments) and agriculture sectors with a view to turn the people of the country into resources and to mobilize resources. The RMG sector alone has been able to provide employment for more than two million people, of them 80% is female. The Bangladesh garment industry is the largest employer of women in the formal manufacturing sector. Women from various class backgrounds are employed in the RMG sector because they can be molded into compliant workers. Fauzia Erfan Ahmed in her The Rise of the Bangladesh Garment Industry: Globalization, Women Workers, and Voice [NWSA Journal - Volume 16, Number 2, Summer 2004, pp. 34-45] raises the idea that women are recruited to fill certain positions because of stereotypes that women are more docile, easier to control, and thus better suited to do repetitive manufacturing work, so that gendered divisions of labor rise out of gender biases in society. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) World Investment Report 2006 [FDI from Developing and Transition Economies: Implications for Development] total inward foreign direct investment to Bangladesh was $692 million in 2005, a 50% increase over figures for 2004. Outward foreign direct investment flows were negligible. The trend of foreign direct investment is very encouraging. The government is committed and has been pursuing policies for supporting and encouraging foreign investment in different sector. Recently FDI is playing a vital role to enhance national trade as well as leading towards development. Questions: i) Mention the central issue of the text. ii) Design a Content format for this text. iii) How many references have been used in this text? iv) Write down a reference as per Harvard style. v) Select a Suitable Title for the text.
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