Recently, a New York-based institution, Wealth X, has released its World Ultra Wealth Report 2018, according to which, Bangladesh, which is only just on the path to becoming a developing country, has the fastest growing ultra-wealthy population in the world.

The finding is alarming because, according to the government's own data, the gap between the poor and the rich is increasingly widening. This begs the question whether the economic growth that Bangladesh has experienced over the last few years is exploited by a coterie of super rich individuals.

Mohammad Zonaed Emran, By e-mail