| • | Population: 132 million Highest population density in the world : 894 per sq. km
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| • | Labour force: 56 million skilled, semi-skilled workforce available at low wage rate
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| • | Sizeable significant domestic market, Potential access to South Asia.
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| • | Political stability. Steady growth of GDP
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| • | Stable exchange rate. Low interest rate, Low inflation rate
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| • | Liberalised Industrial Policy
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| • | Export-oriented, private sector-led growth of the economy
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| • | No limitation in equity participation
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| • | Except only four reserved sectors, all industries are open for private investment
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| • | Law Reform Commission setup to update existing laws
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| • | Administrative Reforms Commission to modernize the administrative system
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| • | Law enacted to allow private sector to establish export processing zones
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| • | Approval of policy parameters and incentives for private power generation
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| • | 2 export processing zones operating 4 more under implementation
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| • | Adequate banking facilities 18 private , 18 foreign 8 financing institutions and 3 nationalized commercial banks.
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| • | One Stop Service(Advisory cell) in BOI for obtaining various utilities
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| • | Foreign Private Investment is protected under national and international guarantees.
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| • | Largely homogenous society. Population with great resilience in the face of adversity
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| • | Broad non-partisan political support for market oriented reforms
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| • | Most investor friendly regime in South Asia
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| • | Natural Gas exploration- 11 tcf proven reserve. Estimated reserve up to 50 tcf
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| • | Investment heaven in Infrastructure, power generation, transmission and distribution, telecommunication, cellular telephony, upgrading of ports, railways and airports and information technology.
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| • | Economic risk factors for FDI are minimum compared to many countries in the region
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| • | Cost of living quite low and reasonable
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| • | English language is widely spoken and understood.
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