, April 18 -- Speakers at a book launching programme on Thursday said that without a strong political agenda, implementation of economic reforms is quite impossible in Bangladesh.

There are several elite groups created in the last one decade in the country. Business elite is also one of them, who is driving the business sector and at the same time participating in policymaking in favour of them while ignoring mass people'd benefits, observed the speakers.

They said this at a book launching programme titled 'Fifty Years of Bangladesh: Economy, Politics, Society and Culture' published by international publisher Routledge from London in January this year.

They said that a clear scenario of such understanding the people get when they look ...