Niaz Asadullah is a senior fellow at IDEAS Malaysia; Doris Liew is an economist and assistant research manager at IDEAS Malaysia.
Once dismissed as a "basket case," Bangladesh emerged as one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia at the turn of the millennium, hailed by some as the next Asian tiger. With gross domestic product growth exceeding 6% in the past decade, Bangladesh is steadily asserting itself as a viable economic player on the global stage.

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