Specialisation Pattern of Bangladesh's RMG Sector

Mr Wasel Bin Shadat
Research Associate

At the third Seminar under CPD's YSSS, CPD Research Associate Wasel Bin Shadat presented his paper on Exploring the Specialisation Pattern of Bangladesh in the US Apparel Market on February 22, 2004. The paper was an attempt to estimate the comparative advantage of Bangladesh's Ready made Garment (RMG) sector in the US textile and apparel market through Ballasa'a Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) Index. On the basis of RCA analysis, a number of quota categories have been identified in which Bangladesh has shown strong specialisation over the years. Specialisation patterns of Bangladesh's major competitors were analysed for some of the selected categories and compared with those of Bangladesh. The stability in the dynamics of Bangladesh's specialisation pattern in the US apparel market was also tested through Galtonian Regression.