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Economic Indicator: Disputes, Refugees, Human Trafficking and Illicit Drug Production
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Detailed Analysis for Year: 2015
Full Dataset: from 1993 to 2014
Dataset updated: 17th March 2015
Data Source: CIA Factbook
National or Regional Currency: Taka
Currency Symbol: BDT
Disputes - International: Bangladesh referred its maritime boundary claims with Myanmar and India to the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea; Indian Prime Minister Singh's September 2011 visit to Bangladesh resulted in the signing of a Protocol to the 1974 Land Boundary Agreement between India and Bangladesh, which had called for the settlement of longstanding boundary disputes over undemarcated areas and the exchange of territorial enclaves, but which had never been implemented; Bangladesh struggles to accommodate 29,000 Rohingya, Burmese Muslim minority from Arakan State, living as refugees in Cox's Bazar; Burmese border authorities are constructing a 200 km (124 mi) wire fence designed to deter illegal cross-border transit and tensions from the military build-up along border
Refugees And Internally Displaced Persons: refugees (country of origin): 231,125 (Myanmar) (2013) ; IDPs: up to 280,000 (violence, human rights violations, religious persecution, natural disasters) (2013)
Trafficking In Persons: -
Illicit Drugs: transit country for illegal drugs produced in neighboring countries