Bangladesh economy under pressure amid ‘uncharted’ political turmoil.

The student protests that have rocked Bangladesh since July 1 and led
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee in the middle of the night in a
helicopter to New Delhi have battered the domestic economy, with losses
estimated at billions of dollars. Now, even as Nobel Laureate Muhammad
Yunus prepares to guide an interim government in Dhaka, businesses are
struggling with the unprecedented nature of recent events and what comes
next. Even before the events of last weekend and the bloodshed, Zaved
Akhtar, president of the Foreign Investors Chamber of Commerce and
Industry, was reported saying that the Bangladeshi economy had suffered
losses of 10 billion dollars due to the student protests and the curfews and
communication blackouts.