Publication: Bangladesh - Systematic Country Diagnostic: 2021 Update
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2021-11-08
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2022-03-17
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This World Bank Group Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) 2021 Update presents a diagnostic of Bangladesh’s growth and poverty reduction since the previous diagnostic in 2015. It identifies emerging opportunities and challenges for the next decade as the country recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, graduates from least-developed-country (LDC) status, and aspires to become an upper middle-income country (UMIC) by 2031.
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“World Bank. 2021. Bangladesh - Systematic Country Diagnostic: 2021 Update. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37156 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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