Bangladesh would face a slower economic growth during the current fiscal predicts the World Bank. However, it said that Bangladesh would enter the middle-income country group by 2021 if its employment rate increases by 2 percent per year. Over the past five years, the average growth rate of Bangladesh was 6.1 percent. This growth has particularly been as a result of the population growth, increase in productivity and enlargement of labour force participation in foreign lands and growth of local businesses. Though employment increased over the past couple of years, the employment rate remained stagnant for the country. The government's initial economic growth target was 7.2 percent for 2013-14 fiscal year, which has became unachievable due to the recent unrest that disrupted most of the services. The World Bank predicts, coupled with the unrest, the weak manufacturing exports, lack of growth in the agricultural sector and the increasing domestic consumption and investment dem...