ED: Time to graduate

The people of Bangladesh have a reason to be optimistic that we are well and truly on our way to prosperity Congratulations to Bangladesh for receiving the final recommendation from the UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP) for graduating from the least developed country (LDC) status, showing that we remain firmly on track and ready to graduate to a middle-income country.

Bangladesh has met, for the second time, all the three eligibility criteria for LDC graduation involving income per capita, human assets, and economic and environmental vulnerability -- a country becomes eligible for graduating from LDC status if it maintains a per capita gross national income (GNI) of $1,230 or above, a human assets index (HAI) of 66 or above, and an economic vulnerability index (EVI) of 32.