Political feuds propelled by recent student unrest and long-standing animosity among leaders have raised concerns among overseas donors and friendly governments about impoverished Bangladesh's long-term stability.
Delegates at this month's Bangladesh Development Forum meeting committed -- for now -- to further assistance to the South Asian nation of 150 million people to reduce poverty and develop power, energy and infrastructure. But they warned Bangladeshi participants against a bitterly personal and rigidly partisan political climate undercutting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's goal of making the country, where some 40 percent of the population now gets by on under $1 a day, a middle income nation by 2021.
Full Story: ANALYSIS - Politics hits rough seas in Bangladesh, defies hopes - Reuters India
Delegates at this month's Bangladesh Development Forum meeting committed -- for now -- to further assistance to the South Asian nation of 150 million people to reduce poverty and develop power, energy and infrastructure. But they warned Bangladeshi participants against a bitterly personal and rigidly partisan political climate undercutting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's goal of making the country, where some 40 percent of the population now gets by on under $1 a day, a middle income nation by 2021.
Full Story: ANALYSIS - Politics hits rough seas in Bangladesh, defies hopes - Reuters India
