Emerging Markets: Redrawing the Map
When Taizo Ishida first set eyes on Bangladesh, he thought the images would stay with him forever. Posted there in the 1980s as a United Nations development officer, travel cancellation insurance Ishida saw little but abject poverty wherever he turned. Lacking a reliable power grid or even the most basic of public services, the South Asian country was a tragic archetype of the developing nation, Ishida thought — or, rather, he did until last year.