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<title>Counterpoint &#45; Jamil Iqbal</title>
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<title>Banking Crisis and Private Power</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This piece talks about how bad loans, political patronage, and cosmetic accounting turned Bangladesh’s banks into a public crisis. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 15:36:52 +0600</pubDate>
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<title>The Miracle and the Squeeze</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This first article in a three-part series argues that Bangladesh’s celebrated growth story was always more fragile than it looked. Now that growth is slowing and investment is yielding less, the hidden costs of that model are becoming harder to ignore. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Jamil Iqbal</dc:creator>
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<title>Capital Flight, Inequality, and Who Pays</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This third article in a three-part series argues how wealth leaves the country, why the gains of growth narrow at the top, and what a fairer settlement would actually require. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Jamil Iqbal</dc:creator>
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<title>The Banking Crisis and Private Power</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This second article in a three-part series argues that bad loans, political patronage, and cosmetic accounting turned Bangladesh’s banks into a public crisis. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:14:43 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jamil Iqbal</dc:creator>
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