Staff Reporter
The World Bank has asked Bangladesh to develop more special industrial zones in order to achieve the millennium development goal to halve the poverty level by the end of 2015.
“The government should focus further on developing more special economic zones to create jobs,” Finance Adviser Mirza Azizul Islam quoted World Bank President Robert Zoellick as saying.
The WB president visited the Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) at Savar yesterday.
He was accompanied by Praful C. Patel, the World Bank Vice President for South Asia, and country director Xian Zhu. [Read more]