Dhaka, Nov. 10 -- The United Nations assessment visiting team at Dhaka has urged local businesses to develop a roadmap on the Smooth Transition Strategy (STS) that would help ensure a sustainable graduation of the country from the Least Developed Country (LDC) status.

In response to that, business leaders at a meeting held on Sunday informed the visiting UN team that STS has been taken, but its implementation rate is very poor, which, in the next year, might not be possible to fully implement.

Highlighting the challenges the country might face during this transition; they said Bangladesh would need at least five more years to take the full preparations.

According to meeting sources at the meeting, the UN delegation wanted to learn abou...