The Lancet  
Dec 14, 2013  Volume 382  Number 9909  p1957 – 2038 e41 – 47
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

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What’s happening in Bangladesh?
Amartya Sen
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Self-assured commentators who saw Bangladesh as a “basket case” not many years ago could not have expected that the country would jump out of the basket and start sprinting ahead even as expressions of sympathy and pity were pouring in. This informative Lancet Series on Bangladesh1–6 helps to explain what happened—and why. It is important to understand how a country that was extremely poor a few decades ago, and is still very poor, can make such remarkable accomplishments particularly in the field of health, but also in social transformation in general.

Series
Bangladesh: Innovation for Universal Health Coverage
Community-based approaches and partnerships: innovations in health-service delivery in Bangladesh
Shams El Arifeen, Aliki Christou, Laura Reichenbach, Ferdous Arfina Osman, Kishwar Azad, Khaled Shamsul Islam, Faruque Ahmed, Henry B Perry, David H Peters
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Bangladesh: Innovation for Universal Health Coverage
Explaining equity gains in child survival in Bangladesh: scale, speed, and selectivity in health and development
Alayne M Adams, Atonu Rabbani, Shamim Ahmed, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood, Ahmed Al-Sabir, Sabina F Rashid, Timothy G Evans
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