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Bangladesh has achieved much in its quest for economic and social development, but much is left undone. Significant achievements in population, food production, and stabilization of the macroeconomy have not been accompanied by the faster economic growth and employment generation needed to alleviate massive poverty. Raising economic growth to a sustainable level approaching 7 percent over the medium term remains the overriding policy goal for the country. How Government policy and actions can help achieve the goal of faster growth by promoting an export push in manufacturing by the private sector is the basic theme of this report.