Bilal9
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I am posting two stories of recent export processing zone or special economic zone (EPZ or SEZ) developments in the region.
Our EPZ's are (still) as usual run by numbskull bureaucrats with scarce global exposure and even more scarce capability of planning and bold vision. The best they know to do is to hamper industrialization. Witness the Korean and Japanese EPZ fiascoes a la our corrupt PM and bureaucrats down the chain of command. It comes to me as amazement when I see that Koreans and Japanese are still keen to set up industries in Bangladesh due to wages that are half or one-third that of neighboring countries.
I'd say Bangladeshi workers are way more capable in intelligence and skills aptitude for the same wages than workers in either of these locations so the only blame goes to the bureaucrats and their numbskull ineptitude and slowness to build infrastructure compared to neighboring countries. Amata and Mundra's promoters (Adani) are both private companies by the way.
- One is Amata Corporation in Thailand (in the cities of Rayong and Chonburi among other Thai and Vietnamese cities) and
- The second is Mundra port and SEZ (flagship port of Adani Ports and SEZ Ltd) in Mundra, Gujarat.
Our EPZ's are (still) as usual run by numbskull bureaucrats with scarce global exposure and even more scarce capability of planning and bold vision. The best they know to do is to hamper industrialization. Witness the Korean and Japanese EPZ fiascoes a la our corrupt PM and bureaucrats down the chain of command. It comes to me as amazement when I see that Koreans and Japanese are still keen to set up industries in Bangladesh due to wages that are half or one-third that of neighboring countries.
I'd say Bangladeshi workers are way more capable in intelligence and skills aptitude for the same wages than workers in either of these locations so the only blame goes to the bureaucrats and their numbskull ineptitude and slowness to build infrastructure compared to neighboring countries. Amata and Mundra's promoters (Adani) are both private companies by the way.
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