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A Study on the Export Potential of Bangladesh's Ready-Made Garments

중력모형을 이용한 방글라데시 의류 유망 수출시장 추정

  • Hossain, Sumon (Dept. of International Trade, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Oh, Keunyeob (Dept. of International Trade, Chungnam National University)
  • Received : 2018.04.21
  • Accepted : 2018.06.07
  • Published : 2018.06.30
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Abstract

This article explores the international trade flow of Bangladesh's ready-made garments (RMG). We first suggest the brief history and an international structure of trade among countries by using the trade volume. Then we implemented a gravity model regression with the sample of 38 major partner countries in order to investigate the potential export market for the RMG industry. The fixed effect and random effect model for the panel data during the period of 1990 to 2011 are estimated. Our result shows that Bangladesh's RMG exports are affected positively by the size of economy, inflation, exchange rate, foreign direct investment(FDI) and trade openness. On the other hand, the distance between trading partners are related negatively with the trade volume. We used the estimated coefficients from the panel regression in order to predict RMG export potential of Bangladesh. This might show which country is the promising export market for Bangladesh RMG industry. We found that Bangladesh has the highest potential of RMG export with Japan and USA, which seem to have considerable room for export growth if trade barriers and constraints are removed. We added some policy implications for encouraging the RMG export of Bangladesh by using the results from the analysis.

본 연구에서는 방글라데시 의류(ready made garment) 산업과 그 수출 시장을 분석하고 장래에 수출시장으로서의 가능성을 계산하였다. 먼저 방글라데시 의류산업의 수출 현황을 실제 무역데이터를 이용하여 분석하였다. 수출상대국과의 무역량과 방향을 이용하여 무역구조를 제시한 후 중력모형을 이용하여 38개 수출국에 대해 수출결정 요인을 탐색하였다. 계량분석 모형으로는 패널데이터에 대한 회귀분석 모형을 이용하였으며 고정효과모형, 확률효과모형을 제시하고 하우스만 검정을 통해 모델선택을 다루었다. 이러한 분석으로부터 중력이론에서 제시하는 수출대상국의 경제규모, 거리 뿐 아니라 환율과 인플레이션 등도 수출 결정에서 중요한 변수임을 확인하였으며, 수출결정식의 고정효과를 추정하여 수출 상대국들의 잠재적 시장크기를 추정할 수 있었다. 그 결과 가장 유망한 수출시장은 미국과 일본임을 발견하였다. 그러나 Sri Lanka, Pakistan, New Zealand, Egypt들은 이미 잠재수출량을 초과하였음을 보였다. 또한 현재 잠재적 수출시장의 크기에 비해 수출이 적은 국가의 경우 잠재시장 규모와 현실 수출 규모 사이에 수렴하고 있는 경향이 있는가를 측정하였으며 수렴률을 제시하였다. 마지막으로, 만일 방글라데시가 이 분야 수출을 증가시키고자 한다면 이러한 결과에 유의하여 시장 진출 전략을 수립하여야 함을 지적하였다.

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