Losing the threads: Bangladesh
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Shifts in the garment industry, which powered development in the country, represent one risk; meagre currency reserves are another. Yet nothing so imperils Bangladesh’s economic miracle as graft and patronage at the highest levels. How does North Korea afford its flashy weapons programme? Crypto scams of eye-watering scope. And the newsmaking history of BBC Monitoring’s radio translators.
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| 1:20.1 | Not much is certain about what goes on inside North Korea, but reports suggest that grinding poverty is widespread. |
| 1:28.3 | What's crystal clear is that the country splashes out in a big way on snazzy rockets. |
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