Alarming report
The report that almost 50 per cent of the country's population now live on less than $1.25 a day, the rate of urban households living without access to improved sanitation is about 52 per cent, hardly one per cent of the citizens currently have access to the Internet and it takes over 75 days to register a business in Bangladesh manifests the poor performance of the government.
The only silver lining is that Bangladesh is among the top 10 remittance-receiving countries. The way things are, people can see no let-up in the deteriorating law and order situation and price hike in the near future. Will the government rise to the occasion?
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