The New York Times has a puff piece on Sheikh Hasina up. In general I favor the Awami League despite its socialist origins because the party is less bigoted against religious minorities and would likely wink less at de facto ethnic cleansing (though of course the typical Awami League Muslim is still rather prejudiced against non-Muslims, just not nearly as so as BNP supporters I’d bet). But I worry that Bangladesh’s economic growth is a short term feature of its demographic dividend, as the nation still is near the bottom on most metrics of human capital.