{"id":257,"date":"2006-12-19T07:24:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T06:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=257"},"modified":"2006-12-19T07:24:38","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T06:24:38","slug":"forgotten-world-52-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten world (52): Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally part of India until 1947 and then the eastern part of Pakistan until 1971, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh\">Bangladesh<\/a> became an independent nation after a bloody civil war. Bangladesh has the seventh largest population in the world (147 million) and it is one of the globe&#8217;s most densely populated countries with its people crammed into a delta of rivers that empties into the Bay of Bengal. The country has annual monsoon floods and cyclones are frequent.<br \/>\nBangladesh has made impressive progress in human development by focusing on increasing literacy, achieving gender parity in schooling, and reducing population growth. Nevertheless poverty remains deep and widespread; almost half of the population live on less than one dollar a day.<br \/>\nSix Bangladeshi factories supply Primark, Tesco, and Asda in the UK which insist that they meet minimum legal pay standards. However, a minimum wage in Bangladesh is officially \u00a312 a month, athough the living wage is calculated by economists there at \u00a322 a month. The least skilled garment workers can make only \u00a37 or \u00a38 a month; the most skilled can hope to earn \u00a316, or an average of 5p an hour for an 80-hour week.<br \/>\nIndia is close to completing a little-known but massive project to construct an iron fence two and a half metres high running most of the  length of its 4,100 km (2,500 mile) border with Bangladesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally part of India until 1947 and then the eastern part of Pakistan until 1971, Bangladesh became an independent nation after a bloody civil war. Bangladesh has the seventh largest population in the world (147 million) and it is one of the globe&#8217;s most densely populated countries with its people crammed into a delta of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}