Obstacles we must overcome

According to the United Nation's World Economic Situation and Prospects 2018 report, Bangladesh is set to become one of the fastest growing least-developed economies. As estimated in the report, our GDP growth rate will be 7.1 percent in 2018 and 7.2 percent the year after.

Despite such tremendous economic progress, there are a number of obstacles that we must overcome. Economic inequality coupled with social and political imbalances pose a danger to our national growth. Corruption too needs to be checked for economic growth to benefit the nation as a whole.