Bangladesh has just been excluded again, for the second year in a row, from the list of countries selected for US assistance through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MMC).

…..the MCC board has excluded Bangladesh from the list, citing corruption as the reason.

During an online discussion on the current state of US-Bangladeshi relations on Tuesday, 20 December 2005 John A Gastright, deputy assistant secretary for South Asian Affairs in the US state department, cited corruption as the main reason for the exclusion of Bangladesh from aid recipients. He said that corruption was threatening Bangladesh’s survival. “The government should implement its previous commitments to end corruption,” he pointed out.

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Officials of foreign governments have now learned to treat this country with disdain and contempt in addition to denying aid. That does not seem to bother the people in power anymore. They seem to shrug it off as the price for their right and access to unbridled corruption. The name or honour of the country be damned!

What’s next?