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“Bangladesh has achieved a lot, but its politics threatens to derail it”—a 50th-birthday look

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THE COUNTRY has empowered its women, established itself as a garment-industry powerhouse and vastly improved public health—but its politics remains troubled. The pandemic has not reduced average global happiness, but rather reshaped it: the old are more content and the young less so. And a look at the staggering costs of the Suez Canal blockage. Runtime: 21min

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