This book highlights Bangladesh’s achievements on economic fronts during its 50 years’ journey since independence. It takes a comprehensive but succinct look at the past, the present and the future of the Bangladesh economy. Bangladesh at Fifty: An Economy on the Move collects fourteen papers by eminent economists who have all utilized their specializations to write about different aspects of a vibrant and yet vulnerable economy that needs to move from strength to strength, building on past successes, correcting the problems that exist, anticipating problem areas to avoid in the future, providing solutions to them, and coming up with suggestions for an even more dynamic economy