The US is set to launch economic talks this week with the interim government of Bangladesh, including its leader Muhammad Yunus, as Washington seeks to help one of the world’s biggest garment exporters boost its economy.
The discussions to be held in Dhaka on September 14 and 15 represent the first high-level economic discussions between the US and Bangladesh since a student-led protest movement toppled long-serving authoritarian leader Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India.
Yunus, the 84-year-old Nobel laureate, microlending pioneer and founder of Grameen Bank, took the helm of the interim government as its chief adviser last month and is expected to participate in the talks along with other senior Bangladeshi officials.
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