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Bangladesh’s $**.** billion apparel export engine is entering a margin squeeze: buyers are paying less in key markets even as energy, finance and compliance costs rise at home. The sector’s most provocative answer is factory digitisation, with early adopters claiming productivity gains of up to ** per cent. The question is whether a few points…

7 HOUR(s)UPDATED 7 HOUR(s) •BUSINESS Star Business Desk Azra Salim, managing director of Shombhob Health Ltd and president of EO Bangladesh, poses for a group photograph with the organisers, guests, former and current student entrepreneurs after launching the 11th Global Student Entrepreneur Awards at Renaissance Dhaka Gulshan Hotel recently. Photo: EO Bangladesh