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For Bangladesh’s apparel industry, digitisation and technology are rapidly shifting from an efficiency-enhancing option to a business imperative. With exports at a critical crossroads, manufacturers are confronting intensifying global competition, thin margins and an increasingly fluid trade environment. There is therefore little room to overlook technologies that can help unlock greater value from existing capacity.

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Bangladesh is preparing for an AI economy, but its existing technology base offers a warning that must be heeded. The Economic Census 2024 found that only 2.44 percent of manufacturing establishments in the country use computers or information technology in production. The FY2026-27 budget, meanwhile, projects a vision of specialised laboratories for AI, machine learning,…