Bangladesh: Capitalist Haven

Earlier this month, the Pew Research Center released the second of two major reports detailing findings from a global public opinion survey on economic issues conducted last spring in 44 countries. Read together, the two reports reveal something you might not have guessed: Bangladesh is among the countries most supportive of the free market, and certainly the most free-market, trade-oriented country surveyed in South Asia. At least as far as public opinion is concerned, the People’s Republic of Bangladesh is a capitalist haven.

First, the data. The spring 2014 survey asked a variety of questions about the benefits or losses from trade, beliefs about inequality, optimism or pessimism about the future and support for a free market. A report released last month focused on beliefs about trade, and this month’s looked at inequality as well as beliefs about capitalism and the market.
For Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alyssaayres/2014/10/28/bangladesh-capitalist-haven/