\\\'Showed world what we can do\\\'

Prime minister's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy has said the Bangladesh has shown the world it can surge ahead all by itself by climbing up the economic ladder well ahead of the targeted year. Joy has made the remark before 200 youths in the interactive discussion styled ‘Let’s Talk’ on Bangladesh’s achievement of lower middle-income country status. “We were waiting for the World Bank statistics. But we were hearing that yes, we would be promoted. We knew it from beforehand, our figures also said we achieved it. We were waiting for official announcement to come,” said Joy, also Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son. “We promised that we’d turn Bangladesh a middle-income country by 2021. “We reached the lower-middle income status (and) we did it with six years in hand,” he added, according to a news agency.

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