Under the Vision 2021, foreign investment targets have been set to $540 million.
This will increase the export revenues of the country to 40 billion dollars and employment will be created approximately 10 million people.Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith said, while presenting the proposed budget of fiscal year 2017-18, the present government has lifted production capacity by 15,351 megawatts by removing the country's power deficit. In the first eight months of the fiscal year 2015-2016, the scope of employment for 1, 46, 353 people has been created in the projects registered with the Board of Investment. Foreign investment increased in the country due to the creation of more than 100 economic zones in different areas of the country as well as creating tax incentives and various incentives.According to the financial year 2013-2016 fiscal year report of Financial Institutions Division of the Ministry of Finance, foreign currency investors are confident that the Reserve Bank of India will increase the foreign currency reserve by 31.21 billion US dollars till March 2017.Foreign investment in 2011 was more than $ 100 million. Foreign investment in Bangladesh came in 223 million dollars in 2015.While presenting the proposed budget, the Finance Minister said that this progress has been made due to the government's investment promotion program. He said that due to investment in industrial sector, opportunities for large employment were created at the management, technical, supervisory and skilled-unskilled workers. Investment needs to be invested in every sector of the country.




