Bangladesh tries to muffle the siren song of the capital

But climate change displaces farmers and factories lure them

In 1974 just 9% of Bangladeshis lived in towns or cities. Today 37% of the country’s 170m people do. In a few decades more than half will…

The Economist | 12th September 2019

https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/09/12/bangladesh-tries-to-muffle-the-siren-song-of-the-capital