Bangladesh, Jan. 21 -- It is not always on the dot, but the Economist's "The world in numbers" issue for the forthcoming year that is typically published in the folding year's December garners a fair amount of respect for being fairly much in the proper ballpark. This 2019 December, it makes Bangladesh the leading growth-rate country in Asia (give or take the war-savaged Syria), indeed across the world since Asia is the machine churning out more goods and services than any other continent currently. For at least four reasons, that stands out: (a) India is slipping; (b) its competitor RMG (ready-made garment) titan, Vietnam, has not vaulted as much as its RMG export climb suggested, while the two other competitors, Cambodia and Myanmar, are ...