BNP's Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury dropped their whole economic game plan at some conference in Dhaka, and the party is swearing they can pump out 10 million jobs within a year and a half if they win elections. The standing committee guy said they want Bangladesh hitting a trillion-dollar GDP status through actual investment instead of just piling up more debt, plus they are planning skill centers in every district to train workers for better-paying gigs overseas.
Khasru went off about how the economy needs to stop being this exclusive club where you need political connections to get anywhere. He wants cottage industries like blacksmiths and potters getting linked to Amazon and eBay so rural craftspeople can export straight from their villages, and he name-dropped Thailand's village product model as the blueprint. The whole pitch includes sports facilities at every upazila level, fixing the busted capital market, and cutting through regulatory red tape that scares off foreign money.
Khasru went off about how the economy needs to stop being this exclusive club where you need political connections to get anywhere. He wants cottage industries like blacksmiths and potters getting linked to Amazon and eBay so rural craftspeople can export straight from their villages, and he name-dropped Thailand's village product model as the blueprint. The whole pitch includes sports facilities at every upazila level, fixing the busted capital market, and cutting through regulatory red tape that scares off foreign money.
