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Bangladesh Development Update, October 2015Progress on reducing extreme poverty and
 boosting shared prosperity need to be further enhanced in
 the near-term by sustaining Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and
 remittances growth, creating jobs, containing inflation, and
 making progress on improving the quality of public service
 delivery. Private investments need to increase significantly
 to achieve the government’s 7 percent growth target for
 FY16. Moving forward in the immediate future, stronger
 attention is needed to (i) achieve safety and labor rights
 compliance in the garment industry, (ii) complete the
 critical ongoing road, electricity and gas development
 projects, (iii) implement the Public Private Partnership
 (PPP) law, (iv) improve the efficiency and solvency of the
 banking sector through better banking supervision and
 oversight by the Bangladesh Bank and corporate governance
 reforms in public banks, and (v) provide access to serviced
 land to domestic and foreign investors through the Special
 Economic Zones (SEZs) initiative.
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Growth Challenges for Latin AmericaLatin America faces the twin challenges
 of achieving economic growth and reducing extreme
 inequality. Notwithstanding the heterogeneity among Latin
 American countries (LACs), most of them exhibit both: (i)
 low average Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth; and (ii)
 increased inequality during the 1980s. This long period
 includes the 'lost decade,' when outcomes in both
 variables were evidently negative. These negative trends
 have persisted since the early 1990s, in the period of
 intense reforms under the Washington consensus. The
 development gap (difference in GDP per capita or per worker
 between rich countries and LACs) and the equity gap have
 broadened in this period. The report evaluate: (a) the
 macroeconomic environment in which agents make their
 decisions (usually in LACs, under an economic activity
 operating significantly below potential GDP, with outlier
 macro-prices, and fluctuating aggregate demand); (b)
 features of financial reforms (usually intensive in
 short-term segments and weak financing of risk and long-term
 financing), and their implications for capital formation and
 the distribution of opportunities in the domestic economy;
 (c) features of trade reforms (intensive in resource-based
 exports but low total output of tradable); and (d) the
 distribution of productivities, which is closely linked to
 the narrow space granted for the development of small and
 medium enterprises (SMEs).
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Côte d'Ivoire : Investment Climate Survey ReportThis Investment Climate Survey Report (ICSR) for Cote d'Ivoire evaluates the country's business environment by (i) analyzing barriers to private sector investment and growth and how they vary among different types of firms, (ii) benchmarking the Ivorian investment climate and firm performance to that of other countries and (iii) providing recommendations to promote and strengthen the private sector. The ICSR is supported by the statistical analysis of a survey of firms based in Cote d'Ivoire's major urban centers, as well as data from other sources. This ICSR identifies key areas where investment climate reforms may be warranted. It is largely based on the analysis of Enterprise Survey data; which are surveys of mostly manufacturing, formal sector enterprises in the major industrial centers of an economy. Cote d'Ivoire is one of the very few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with a ratio of manufacturing to GDP higher than 15 percent.