Guess who's coming to dinner? When Bill Clinton swung into Bangladesh last year the red carpet was rolled out ...
New Internationalist › Nbr. 332, March 2001
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Guess who's coming to dinner? When Bill Clinton swung into Bangladesh last year the red carpet was rolled out ...
Farida Akhtar, China magazine.
WHEN US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton started his subcontinental tour in Bangladesh last year, naive nationalists suggested he was paying homage to the Grameen Bank's microcredit programme, which both Hillary and Bill had praised at international events. A slightly bigger incentive may have been the bidding war by US oil companies -- primarily Occidental and Unocal -- over massive untapped gas reserves in Bangladesh. US oil is...See the full content of this document
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