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Bangladesh is one of the N11 Countries (Lawson, Heacock, and Stupnytska, 2007). It is considered as a land of opportunities because it is growing 6% - 7% annual growth rate during last one and half decade without any major governmental incubation. Bangladesh has a very strong resilience power to progress with so many barriers and disasters. Shortage of electricity, infrastructural insufficiency, and political instability nothing has been stopped this around 6% growth during last decade. Its industrial base do not get maturity in any sector, industrial specialization is also absent here. This growth is driven by the 60 lac small and medium enterprises (SMEs) along with micro and cottage enterprises located all over the country with concentration at divisional headquarters (MIDAS & ICG, 2003). Most of the MSMEs are out of any government incentives, loan coverage and technical up gradation. If existing MSMEs could get governments technical, regulatory and financial support then they alone could bring a double digit (10%) growth for the country. There are 177 SME Clusters (natural industrial park) throughout the country (Abdin, 2014). All the clusters have potentials to grow further. But without technical up gradation current growth will not be sustain for long time.
The foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered as one of the major sources of employment generation, technology transfer, and managerial capacity building, and increasing market efficiency in any country.
Now come to the point that, why companies go for FDI investment? This is because global competition among the multinationals is rising tremendously. Factors of production e.g. land, labor, capital are becoming costlier in the developed world. As a result producing economy product by maintaining satisfactory quality is a major threat to the TNCs & MNCs. Without a standard product in competitive price a company may not remain competitive around the world. For this reason global investors are searching for a more competitive location where factors of production are available at a competitive rate and market access of the products could be ensured. Relocation of the labor intensive industries towards the developing countries is the result of this tension of global investors.
On the other hand; export earnings, remittance and the foreign direct investment (FDI) are three major sources of revenue of a least developed country. Therefore governments are offering special packages to the foreign investors for attracting FDI. Developing countries are somehow in an advantageous position to attract FDI than the least developed countries (LDC). But some LDC has absolute advantage over the developing countries in comparison of land and labor cost. Adequate manpower supply, large local market and special packages from the government side remain them in the field.