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    ISAS Briefs

    Quick analytical responses to occurrences in South Asia

    282 : Bangladesh’s Growth Enablers

    Ishraq Ahmed : Research Associate at the ISAS

    21 May 2013

    The Bangladesh economy has experienced sustained growth over the last three decades, but it has only been since the economic policy reforms of the 1990s that economic growth truly accelerated. The reforms bore fruition – the second half of this decade witnessed the growth in gross domestic product (GDP) exceeding six per cent annually – and the growth performance has kept pace with that of other countries in South Asia.