Productivity development is a very crucial way out to face the post multi fiber agreement challenges for Bangladesh

RMG sector is the most important sector of Bangladesh's economy. It contributes around 76Vo of export earnings of the country. Currently we are at the door of quota free world-market, which will be open in the year 2005. Bangladesh will have to export in a quota free trade world from that year in accordance with General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement. To run successfully in the global market, our garments industry has to be competitive with those of other countries. This calls for a higher level of productivity. The attempt of this paper is to analyze productivity trend in some selected RMG units. It is an attempt to identify in which areas the companies are emphasizing, whether there is deficiency in any area, whether to take any corrective measures, and whether the companies are prepared to face the quota free market or not.