Term Paper on Trade Union Movement in EPZ

Export Processing Zones (EPZs) have become an important factor for economic enclaves particularly in employment generation, export diversification and investment creation. One of the important objectives of Industrial Policy of Bangladesh is to employment creation and to expand investment in export-oriented industries. In continuing to that policy, EPZ is playing as a prime role as an economic instruments for attracting foreign direct investment, employment, foreign exchange earning and technology transfer. In the age of globalization the concept of EPZ has become more significance for economic growth. Result reveals that EPZ in all over the country has a dramatic increasing trend from 1975 with 25 countries and the numbers of EPZs were 79, now 2003 it has covered 116 countries that covered more than 3000 zones. As a result 42.0 million are employed within those zones (Agarwal, 2005).