UNB, Dhaka :
With two decades of six percent growth per year, Bangladesh is on track to become a top-30 economies by 2030 despite ‘serious’ security challenges, says the United States.
“Bangladesh, while facing serious security challenges, has gone from a food importer to a food exporter,” said US Deputy Assistant Secretary Angela Aggeler while addressing the East-West Center International Media Conference in New Delhi on Friday.
Aggeler also said Bangladesh lifted tens of millions out of extreme poverty, and met several of its Millennium Development Goals, sharply reducing child mortality and improving maternal health.
“USAID played an important role in those achievements, and it’s another great example of what can be accomplished with U.S. partnership,” said the US Deputy Assistant Secretary.
She mentioned that US Secretary John Kerry noted two weeks ago in Dhaka, “We’re not sure that anyone would have predicted a decade ago that the U.S. and Bangladesh would be consulting so closely on regional security, that Bangladesh would be using American cutters to patrol the Bay of Bengal, and that our shared agenda would include everything from counterterrorism to environmental health and sustainability of our oceans.”
With two decades of six percent growth per year, Bangladesh is on track to become a top-30 economies by 2030 despite ‘serious’ security challenges, says the United States.
“Bangladesh, while facing serious security challenges, has gone from a food importer to a food exporter,” said US Deputy Assistant Secretary Angela Aggeler while addressing the East-West Center International Media Conference in New Delhi on Friday.
Aggeler also said Bangladesh lifted tens of millions out of extreme poverty, and met several of its Millennium Development Goals, sharply reducing child mortality and improving maternal health.
“USAID played an important role in those achievements, and it’s another great example of what can be accomplished with U.S. partnership,” said the US Deputy Assistant Secretary.
She mentioned that US Secretary John Kerry noted two weeks ago in Dhaka, “We’re not sure that anyone would have predicted a decade ago that the U.S. and Bangladesh would be consulting so closely on regional security, that Bangladesh would be using American cutters to patrol the Bay of Bengal, and that our shared agenda would include everything from counterterrorism to environmental health and sustainability of our oceans.”
