In charts: Hasina's Bangladesh stitched a blistering tale of growth, and that ended her regime

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Bangladesh, seen in recent decades as an emerging success story in the South Asian subcontinent, took a turn for the worse when the Sheikh Hasina government was toppled in early August by student protests..

Apart from political discontent, economic discontent too played a role in the destabilization of the Hasina government...

Bangladesh now has a new interim government in place..

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus took the oath of office, and his interim Cabinet was formed with 16 members primarily from civil society, including two student protest leaders, following the president's dissolution of Parliament..

Since coming to power in 2009, Hasina concentrated on this industry and expanded into new global markets, significantly driving the country's growth...

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