Bangladesh, Commodities, Economics, Featured Work, Politics - Monday, September 1, 2008 21:55 - 0 Comments

Bangladesh: life at the sharp end

Euromoney magazine, September 2008

Army chiefs rarely find themselves touting potato recipes, but these are remarkable times. So it was that Bangladesh’s general Moeen U Ahmed – who under the military-backed interim government commands much of the real power in this country of 158 million people – found himself addressing a press conference at the Dhaka Radisson in May urging people to eat more spuds.

Moeen’s entreaties were designed to ease pressure on rice, and represented one of the more oblique side effects of a food crisis which at its peak, more than doubled the price of imported rice to Bangladesh. Continue…

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