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...slew of innovative ngos and a committed cadre of government social-welfare workers, the nation has achieved impressive gains in fighting poverty and slowing the growth of its population. A thriving textile-export industry fills American supermarkets with made-in-Bangladesh T shirts and sweaters, and many Bangladeshi millionaire textile exporters drive about the streets of Dhaka in new Mercedes-Benz. But for all its achievements, the country has also seemed like a political experiment designed to find out just how much corruption a modern nation can withstand before it ceases to function. "We are hurtling toward disaster," warns Qazi...
...Prominent Bangladeshi businessmen, who expect the security situation to deteriorate further and political agitation by the opposition to intensify, reckon there will be no significant investment in new factories for the next six to nine months. There could be worse ahead. Textiles account for 75% of Bangladesh's export value, but the start of 2005 will see the expiration of a special trade agreement that gives the country a guaranteed market for its garments in the U.S. Some experts fear that once the trade agreement ends, cheaper Chinese garments will eat away a large part of Bangladesh's export market...
Wilson has continued to work with needy countries. Currently, his focus is the arsenic contamination crisis in Bangladesh. According to Wilson, Bangladeshi wells are contaminated, the government is paralyzed by its own problem and international calls for help have gone unanswered for seven years. “I decided to work independently, with a small group with a small amount of money and demonstrate what could be done,” Wilson says. “It’s been the worst man-made environmental disaster in the world, probably 50 to 100 times more disastrous than Chernobyl...
Wilson has personally contributed $10,000 to the Bangladeshi sanitation effort, and he has also helped on-the-ground rehabilitation programs. He is modest about what he has accomplished. “You just have to organize it,” Wilson says, “you think it’s going to be hard until you actually just...
...book, Ka (Speak Up), was soon banned in both Bangladesh and the Indian province of West Bengali, and its unflinching treatment of taboo issues—especially women’s sexuality—angered many prominent Bangladeshi writers, government officials and Muslim fundamentalists...