The Textile‑Clothing Industry of Bangladesh : A Demand-Supply Review with Asian Competitors

The objective of this paper is to investigate the demand-supply structure of the textileclothing industry (TCI) of Bangladesh in comparison to China, Indonesia, India, and Viet Nam.These countries are the top five clothing-exporting nations in the world, and together they control 91% of clothing exports in the Asian region.The paper applies structural decomposition approach for the demand-side analysis, whereas vertical specialization (VS) and linkage approach are used for the supply-side analysis using national and regional input-output tables for 2000 and 2011 at constant 2000 prices.The results show that the contribution of final demand has outplayed the technical change effect, whereas export contribution and domestic demand expansion have played the growth roles.The technical effect from 2000 to 2011 in the TCI…