부산대학교 도서관

This paper provides a general understanding of urban development and urban policy using the different variables to discuss the reality of urbanization over the last couple of decades in Bangladesh. Also this study tries to describe the answer in the contemporary Bangladeshi context, to the question of which factors drive urban development and what is the urban policy in the major cities of Bangladesh. In particular, it presents whether economic factors are more associated with urban development in Bangladesh. This study uses data from 64 Bangladeshi cities covering the year of 1991, 2001, and 2011to look at the factors that drive urban development in Bangladesh. To evaluate the weight of concentration about economic factors this study uses GLS regression as a research. It also reflects a comprehensive look at understanding some core factors in details of urban development in Bangladesh. However, the study finds that most of the Bangladeshi cities are transforming in the industrial period and the transportation and communication, public employee and textile industry is main sources in the city’s economy. Moreover, agriculture industry is also moving force to drive urban development in Bangladesh.