Privatization in Bangladesh: Challenges and Opportunities

The aim of this paper is to critically examine the state of privatization in Bangladesh focused on the challenges and opportunities. Privatization is one of the slogans in the literature of NPM which emerged as a new approach in Public Administration. Despite the phenomenal expansion of privatization programs, the results differed from country to country. Privatization in Bangladesh has been facing a lot of challenges but it has ample opportunities for development through domestic and foreign direct investment. The paper is qualitative in nature and case study on Bangladesh. The study has been conducted by using secondary data, like daily newspapers, journal articles, research papers, magazines, and bulletins.

Keywords: Privatization, Economic Development, Bangladesh.