, Dec. 8 -- Bangladesh's economy is 'struggling but could have been far worse' and the country's future now depends on maintaining reform momentum and ensuring an uninterrupted electoral process, said former Lead Economist of the World Bank's Dhaka office Dr Zahid Hussain said on Monday,

"The economy presents a mix of positive and negative indicators with the negative ones still outweighing the positive. The economy is struggling, and so are livelihoods but it could have been much worse," he said at a seminar on the publications Bangladesh State of the Economy 2025 and Sustainable Development Goals: Bangladesh Progress Report 2025 at the NEC Conference Room in the capital.

He said remittances have reached record levels, illicit financia...