FBCCI President Sheikh Fazle Fahim on Friday said Bangladesh is maintaining a stable macro-economic growth trajectory and its development in the past decade. He was addressing a meeting with the visiting delegation from the New York State Senate at the Federation bhaban, Matijheel in city.
The New York State of USA expressed its deep interest for enhancing socio-economic cooperation, trade and investment in Bangladesh.
While addressing, FBCCI President highlighted the role of the apex body as the umbrella trade organization of Bangladesh, working closely with policy makers, stakeholders at national and international platforms including enhanced engagements with WEF, CWEIC, UN, WTO, ITC, in addition to earlier international engagements such as ICC, SRCIC (Silk route), SCCI & over 97 working relations with international counterparts.
He also mentioned the opportunity for re-skilling of the young demographic dividend towards creating an ecosystem to get on the bandwidth of 4th IR, investment in the 100 Economic Zones, manufacturing, FMCG, etc. FBCCI sought cooperation from Cornell, Columbia and NYU to assess the industry-academia HR gap on transitional economy, mid-level management, 4IR curriculum & programs. FBCCI is working with Seneca College and University of Toronto (Canada).
The New York State Senators’ Delegation was led by Senator Luis R. Sepúlveda with senators John Liu, James Skoufis, Kevin Parker & Leroy Comrie. The delegates expressed their keen interest in strengthening the state level partnership with Bangladesh particularly between chamber of commerce and business council highlighting New York’s role in the USA economy as the financial epicenter and agriculture producing state in addition to being home to a sizeable diaspora of American Bangladeshi and NRBs making important economic contributions.
They also praised Bangladesh's impressive growth and development sighting numerous opportunities to cooperate in multiple sectors including education, ICT, tourism, industry & infrastructure among others. The meeting also discussed issues like knowledge transfer, industry-academia exchange & strengthening trade relations between the two friendly countries that at present which stands at US$8.65bn with exports US$6.87bn& imports US$1.77bn in FY 2019.
An audio-visual presentation was made in the meeting Bangladesh’s track record in sustainable inclusive growth trajectory & upcoming investment opportunity. FBCCI Senior Vice President Md. Muntakim Ashraf, Vice Presidents Md. Siddiqur Rahman, Md Rejaul Kariem, Hasina Newaaz, Mir NizamUddin Ahmed and Nizam Rajesh and Directors Md. Munir Hossain, Sujib Ranjan Dash and Amzad Hossain also joined the program.
