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A Promising Deal or a Pricey Pact? Rethinking the Japan-Bangladesh Economic Partnership Agreement

Bangladesh (BD) is slated to graduate from Least Developed Country (LDC) status in 2026. This achievement is inviting double-edged incidents. While satisfactory for the prestige, it means losing automatic duty-free access to developed markets like Japan. In this context, negotiations…

Could Japan-Bangladesh’s new strategic engagement change the region’s current geopolitics?

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said Bangladesh and Japan have successfully elevated the bilateral relations to a “Strategic Partnership” from the existing “Comprehensive Partnership”. By Samina Akhter “Prime minister Kishida and I have discussed today the entire gamut of…