Tag: Development strategy

Pakistan is No Longer in South Asia. Why Does it Matter to Bangladesh?

By placing Pakistan in MENAAP, the World Bank is giving institutional weight to this development path, one centred on migration, remittances, energy dependence, external finance and rentier capital. Pakistan’s reclassification is not Bangladesh’s crisis, but it is Bangladesh’s warning.

Why Offering Bangladesh on a Platter Is Not a Development Strategy

The binary is brutally simple. Nations that negotiate as supplicants get extracted. Nations that negotiate as sovereigns get developed.