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  • Who Said What After 1991 Election

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    Bangladesh’s first free and fair election under a caretaker government was held on February 27, 1991. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Khaleda Zia, secured a surprising victory by winning 140 seats. Most of Bangladesh’s intelligentsia believed that the Awami League, a ‘force supporting the liberation war,’ being a well-organized party, would easily come…

  • Bangladesh RMG sector saw highest job growth in 1990-95 period: BIDS

    A BIDS study published in 2017 found that Bangladesh’s ready-made garments (RMG) sector experienced the highest annual job growth, 29.07% each year, from 1990 to 1995. The BIDS study, Labour Market and Skill Gap in Bangladesh claimed that the RMG sector’s spectacular growth started at the beginning of the 1990s. In 1990, its rank in…