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🗓️ 4 September 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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After protests and political turmoil, we look at the challenges facing the new interim government.
We'll hear from the biggest suppliers to global fast fashion brands and talk to students about their hopes and anxieties.
Plus we have an exclusive interview with the country’s new central bank governor.
Presenter: Nikhil Inamdar Producer: Jaltson Akkanath Chummar
(Image: A garment worker at a sewing machine in Bangladesh)
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Nikhail Anandar and you're listening to Business Daily on the BBC World Service. |
0:06.7 | Today we're in Bangladesh to find out how the country's economy is coping in the aftermath of the student uprising |
0:13.9 | that ended the long reign of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. |
0:17.9 | We'll be speaking with the newly appointed central bank governor. |
0:21.3 | We're in a difficult spot. We want to make changes, massive changes. Let's hope for the |
0:26.5 | best. Students tell us about their hopes from the new government. And we chat with a garment |
0:32.1 | factory owner about what this instability means. Obviously, image, that is the biggest loss. |
0:38.3 | I mean, reputation and image and, you know, the buyer's confidence level, |
0:43.3 | because all of a sudden the internet shut down. |
0:46.3 | That's all coming up on Business Daily. |
0:53.3 | The knitting machines with Sonia exports. |
0:57.0 | Back up and running after political turmoil roiled the world's second largest export market for ready garments last month. |
1:07.0 | It's a grueling drive to to the sweater factory on a day when the rains have flooded |
1:16.6 | the roads of Dhaka. |
1:18.6 | But we reach greeted by a hubbub of activity. |
1:23.6 | Bangladesh is the beating pulse of fast fashion, |
1:28.3 | the second largest exporter of ready garments to the world. |
1:32.3 | Everyone sources from this country, from H&M to Zara and Gap to Versace. |
1:39.3 | So when Bangladesh catches of gold, the global garment industry sneezes. |
1:45.0 | After a prolonged shutdown earlier this month, the factories are now limping back to some degree of normality. |
1:53.0 | So right here in front of me, work is happening at a breakneck speed. |
1:59.0 | The workers here are trying to catch up on all the days that |
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