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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Today, we consider what awaits Bangladesh after the ouster of its prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who has been replaced by a caretaker government, backed by the army and led by Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel peace laureate. We argue that the country must now also clean up its rotten political system.


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