Dhaka, April 23 -- Speakers from a diverse coalition of national and international stakeholders have urged the government to move a request to defer the country's graduation from the Least Developed Country (LDC) category, currently scheduled on 24 November 2026.

They made the call at a roundtable on "Bangladesh's LDC Graduation: Between Readiness and Reality," organised by the Change Initiative, a think tank, at a hotel in the city on Wednesday, UNB reports.

They cited those significant economic headwinds amid recent political turmoil and potential severe negative impacts if graduates with insufficient preparedness.

Estiaque Bari, head of research, Change Initiative in his keynote presentation underscored that Bangladesh's upcoming LD...