Bangladesh must proactively pursue trade agreements that ensure favourable market access while also strengthening its export competitiveness.

Paradoxically, Bangladesh is also regarded by many as a test case of sustainable development.

In light of the upcoming LDC graduation, exporters need to proactively prepare for changes.

Economist Wahiduddin Mahmud says at the BIDS conference

The timing of the visit, amidst labour unrest and pre-election volatility, is particularly significant.

The government will continue to provide incentives to 12 sectors as an alternative to direct cash support on export receipts with a view to helping exporters tackle potential challenges in the post-LDC era, a top official said yesterday.

Better water management can nourish people's lives

United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Haoliang Xu yesterday said there are several challenges ahead of Bangladesh that need to be addressed to achieve a sustainable transition from LDC to lower middle income country.

Giving credit to people for meeting the eligibility criteria for Bangladesh's graduation to a developing country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the people can achieve anything. “It is an achievement of the people of Bangladesh. I think the country's people are the main source of all power. They can achieve anything,” she said.

The government chalks out a two-day programme from today to celebrate the country's eligibility to graduate to a developing country from a least developed one.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges the countrymen to keep up the achievement dedicating Bangladesh's graduation to a developing nation to the countrymen as she was accorded a grand reception for her stewardship for the landmark development.