League of her own: Sheikh Hasina’s grip on Bangladesh
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Over two decades in office, the prime minister and her Awami League party have overseen impressive growth and reforms in a notoriously corrupt country—but that same firm hand may now be limiting Bangladesh’s progress. Our correspondent visits the frontier of a potentially transformative technology for reducing atmospheric carbon: direct air capture. And a listen to the astonishing boom in Spanish-language music.
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| 1:06.9 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:10.2 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:11.6 | And I'm Oire Ogunbe. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:20.7 | When it comes to reducing the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide, you could simply release less of it. |
| 1:30.1 | Or you could grab what's already out there. |
| 1:35.2 | Our correspondent reports from the frontier of that approach, direct air capture. |
| 1:43.1 | And Spanish language music is having a moment. Spreading and streaming across borders not just in the Spanish-speaking world, but |
| 1:45.9 | everywhere. Our language columnist combs through the Spotify data and has a little listen |
| 1:51.8 | to what's going on. |
| 1:59.0 | But first. |
| 2:05.2 | Thank you. But first. Bangladesh's Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, is the world's longest-serving female head of state. |
| 2:12.8 | In a country that has faced devastating natural disasters and desperate living standards, she has presided |
| 2:19.7 | over a historic reduction in poverty. But her long rule has now become a problem. The popular South |
| 2:28.7 | Asian country is riddled with corruption and its best and brightest are leaving in their droves. |
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