Bangladesh, Feb. 19 -- Bangladesh's pathetic placement in the 2018 Global Connectedness Index (GCI: 140th out of 169), portrays one of the key reasons why it is struggling to find its place in the political economic sun. In spite of importing so much of needed inputs for its ready-made garments (RMG) industry from one part of the world (largely China and India), then exporting the finished products to another part of the world (largely Western Europe), apparently it is not seaming up sufficiently well to close the gaps and climb higher. The same oddity characterises the migration-remittance nexus: sending so many workers to so many other parts of the world (the Middle East primarily), then cashing in on one of the top remittance flows in th...