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Bangladesh

A nation of 175.7 million on the world’s largest delta, where four in five lived above $4.20 a day in 2022 and the World Bank approved $1.1 billion of emergency support for food security and livelihoods in 2026.

Perfect Nations values what Bangladesh owns and raises capital against it, through innovative financing for development (FfD) and super intelligence (SI).

Bangladesh at a glance

What we do for Bangladesh

Assets. Capital. Solutions.

Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations.

  1. 01AssetsThe cupFive sovereign assets, valued, from The People to The Power.
  2. 02CapitalThe laurels10 instruments and investments on record, every one sourced.
  3. 03SolutionsThe seven starsSeven basic standards of living, star by star. Energy is furthest from reach today.

The whole logo: a Perfect Nation, where every citizen has all seven basic standards of living, led by good governance.

01Assets · The cup · Sovereign Assets

Five assets no balance sheet counts.

Each is owned today, earns today, and can carry Bangladesh toward seven basic standards of living for every citizen.

  • 175.7mCitizens, 2025

    The People

    33 in every hundred live in towns and cities; the rest live on the land they farm and fish.

  • 72.2%Of land in farms and pasture

    The Land

    The land that feeds the nation, and the first place a citizen dividend can be earned.

  • 14.4%Of land under forest

    The Forest

    Standing forest holds the water, soil and carbon that the world will pay to keep.

  • 620 m³Renewable fresh water per person

    The Water

    Below the scarcity line of 1,000 cubic metres: every drop must be stored, treated and reused.

  • 1.5%Of energy from renewables, 2021

    The Power

    Sun, wind, water and biomass already carry part of the load; the rest is the opportunity.

02Capital · The laurels · Capital Architecture

Bangladesh has carried its people through shock after shock. Next, a clean stove in every home.

Bonds, guarantees, swaps and loans that raise capital against what Bangladesh owns, every line sourced.

Capital Architecture

The record in figures

  • $1.1BTwo World Bank projects approved in June 2026: fertilizer imports, and cash transfers and fuel for essential servicesWorld Bank, 2026
  • $450MFinancial Sector Support Project II: Deposit insurance and bank supervisionWorld Bank, 2026
  • $200MModernising social protection: Safety netsWorld Bank, 2025
  • 42.1%Public sector total debt, share of GDP, fiscal year 2025IMF, 2026
  • $14.08BWorld Bank IDA programme across 50 ongoing projects, one of the largest IDA programmes globallyWorld Bank, 2026

Capital already committed

  • MultilateralApprovedEmergency support for food security and livelihoods$1.1B

    Approved 26 June 2026 · Two projects, $300 million and $713 million

    Fertilizer imports, cash transfers and fuel for essential services

    The Emergency Support for Food Security Project ($300 million) finances imports of 600,000 metric tons of critical fertilizers, half of it urea, for 1.4 million hectares of rice in the Aman and Boro seasons. The Contingent Emergency Response Project ($713 million), from unutilized financing in existing projects, funds cash transfers and livelihood assistance for affected households and small firms, and fuel and energy to continue essential services. It carries food and livelihood.

    World Bank

    Source
  • MultilateralApprovedFinancial Sector Support Project II$450M

    Approved 24 June 2026 · World Bank Board of Executive Directors

    Deposit insurance and bank supervision

    Bolsters the deposit protection system to protect small depositors, strengthens the central bank’s oversight, sets up an effective Emergency Liquidity Assistance framework and advances changes at state-run lenders. It protects the savings behind livelihoods.

    World Bank

    Source
  • MultilateralSignedHealth, Nutrition and Population Sector Development Program$404M

    Signed 10 June 2026 · 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2029 · Two projects

    IDA credit of SDR 284.70 million and a $25 million GFF grant

    Two projects under the national health programme: one strengthens health and nutrition services across the country, with a focus on the Chattogram and Sylhet divisions; the other improves climate-resilient reproductive health and population services.

    World Bank (IDA)Global Financing FacilityEconomic Relations Division

    Source
  • MultilateralRequestedNew IMF-supported programme (requested)To be agreed

    Requested 3 June 2026

    Size to be set in negotiation

    Follows the ECF, EFF and RSF arrangements approved in January 2023.

    International Monetary Fund

    Source
  • MultilateralApprovedEnergy Sector Security Enhancement Project, Additional Financing$350M

    Approved 15 May 2026 · IDA payment guarantee · Original project approved 18 June 2025

    Backs Petrobangla’s LNG import payments

    An IDA payment guarantee-backed facility of standby letters of credit and short-term credit lines for Petrobangla’s LNG imports, so that it can contract supply for longer and rely less on costly spot purchases. It supports more reliable electricity.

    World Bank (IDA)Petrobangla

    Source
  • MultilateralApprovedModernising social protection$200M

    Approved March 2025

    Safety nets

    Modernises the social protection system for the poorest families.

    World Bank

    Source
  • RegionalSignedInclusive Affordable Housing Finance Project$100M

    Approved 27 September 2026 · Signed 7 October 2026 · Concessional loan

    Home loans for at least 40,000 households by 2031

    Long-term, collateral-free microfinance loans, through PKSF and microfinance institutions, for families with informal incomes to build, repair and upgrade their homes, with disaster-resilient design. The 40,000 households are to include at least 32,000 women.

    Asian Development BankPalli Karma-Sahayak Foundation

    Source
  • RegionalApprovedSustainable Energy Development and Community Empowerment in the Chattogram Hill Tracts$175M

    Approved 1 September 2026 · Concessional loan

    Power for at least 88,000 more households in 26 upazilas

    New and modernised distribution networks in Khagrachari, Rangamati and Bandarban: 5,032 km of new lines, six new substations, at least 30 solar-powered drinking water facilities, and solar backup for schools, clinics and other community buildings.

    Asian Development BankBangladesh Power Development Board

    Source
  • RegionalSignedStrengthening Economic Management and Governance Program, Subprogram 2$250M

    Signed June 2026 · Policy-based loan · With the Asian Development Bank

    Part of a proposed $750 million AIIB package

    Budget support from AIIB’s Emergency Response Support Facility, jointly with ADB, to maintain macroeconomic stability and advance structural reforms as the conflicts in the Middle East weigh on the economy.

    Asian Infrastructure Investment BankAsian Development Bank

    Source
  • RegionalApprovedNarayanganj Green and Resilient Urban Development Project$115.8M

    Approved 11 April 2026 · Loan

    Water and drainage for at least 400,000 residents

    Replaces and extends 230 km of water pipeline, adds metered household connections and raises supply from 113 to 162 million litres a day, with 22 km of drainage built with nature-based solutions and new green parks.

    Asian Development BankNarayanganj City Corporation

    Source

The Bangladesh Newswire

The Solutions Wire
Nusrat Rahman, Nation Steward of Bangladesh

Nusrat RahmanNation Steward of Bangladesh · SI Researcher

Already working in Bangladesh.

Independent firms and social enterprises already at work in Bangladesh, highlighted by Perfect Nations. None is a partner of Perfect Nations.

Suggest an enterprise
  • Food

    iFarmer

    Finance, advice, farm inputs and buyers for smallholders: the company says it works with over 300,000 farmers and 24,000 farm retailers.

    Future Startup, 2026
  • Water

    Drinkwell

    Runs 302 Water ATM kiosks in Dhaka with Dhaka WASA; more than 750,000 families hold its prepaid water cards.

    The Business Standard, 2025
  • Energy

    SOLshare

    Links solar home systems so neighbours can trade surplus power; about 40% of its customers were first-time electricity users.

    Ashden, 2020

03Solutions · The seven stars · Perfect Capita

Perfect Bangladesh, star by star.

Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Bangladesh in its own prices.

How Perfect Capita works
Bangladesh: the seven stars of the logo, one for each basic standard of living, rising from the cup; Food is the larger centre star. Each star carries the figure for Bangladesh.WATER59.1%SHELTER37.3%ENERGY29FOOD73.8%EDUCATION48.8HEALTH54LIVELIHOOD79.5%
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Energy · furthest from reach29% cook with clean fuels and technologyWorld Bank, 2024

Tap a star for its figure and source.

The price of Perfect Bangladesh

To be set with Bangladesh, from its own figures and in its own prices: Perfect Capita times the people of Bangladesh, each year.

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Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Bangladesh. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures

Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source.

Solutions for Perfect Bangladesh

  • Solution No. 02

    The Clean Kitchen Fund

    Every family that leaves wood and dung behind earns a carbon credit that finances the next kitchen.

    • 01The challengeAbout 125 million Bangladeshis, 71 in every hundred, cook without clean fuel or technology.
    • 02What Perfect Nations advisesBangladesh should create a clean kitchen fund that lends stoves and cylinders through mobile money and sells a verified carbon credit for every household that stops cooking with wood and dung, so each switch finances the next. With super intelligence, every switch can be verified from the kitchen to the carbon registry, so credits sell at full value and the fund grows with every family it reaches.

    ~125mBangladeshis who cook without clean fuel

    FromPreeti SinhaPresident and CEO, Perfect NationsRead the SolutionDiscuss this Solution
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Dear Bangladesh,

A red sun on a field of green: the green of your land and the red of those who gave their lives for it.

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You have fed a nation of 175 million on one of the most crowded deltas on earth.

“You clothe the world from a delta. Now let every Bangladeshi kitchen cook with clean fuel.”

Yours in design,Preeti SinhaPresident and CEO, Perfect NationsRead the full letter

Work with us · The ReDesign Studio

The Perfect Bangladesh ReDesign Studio

One mission, three depths: the same four moves for Bangladesh, taken as far toward market as you choose.

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For the Government of Bangladesh, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.

  1. 01Identify the assets
  2. 02Estimate Perfect Capita
  3. 03Co-design the capital architecture
  4. 04Launch the instruments
  1. Mandate 013 hours

    The Nation Briefing

    A private session for the people who decide.

    You leave withThe gap, named and sized

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    1. 01The five sovereign assets on this page, walked through.
    2. 02Coverage of 29 and the Gap, explained.
    3. 03The instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted.
    4. 04The path to market, outlined.
    Request a Nation Briefing
  2. Mandate 023 days

    The Blueprint Lab

    Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.

    You leave withThe structure, drawn

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    1. 01The ledger tested against your ministries’ own data.
    2. 02Each of the seven standards costed in Bangladeshi prices.
    3. 03One financing structure, drawn with your team.
    4. 04A term sheet and the partners to approach.
    Plan a Blueprint Lab
  3. Mandate 03End to end

    The Sovereign Mandate

    Led personally by the President and CEO.

    You leave withA structure ready for market

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    1. 01A full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified.
    2. 02Perfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan.
    3. 03The full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing.
    4. 04Taken to investors and development partners, through to close.
    Discuss a Sovereign Mandate

Co-design it with us

Where Bangladeshis and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.

  • Writings

    Write Perfect Bangladesh into being.

    Up to 1,500 words on your vision of Perfect Bangladesh, published with your name.

    Submit your writing
  • Voices of Perfect Nations Launching soon

    The local leaders already building Perfect Bangladesh.

    Great local leaders: honest, dedicated and committed to basic standards of living for all. Every guest answers one question: “What does Bangladesh already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”

  • Co-designers

    Join the community.

    Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect Bangladesh.

    Become a Co-designer

The Bangladesh ReDesign Studio is open

Design Perfect Bangladesh with us.

Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us: every message receives a personal reply.

Sources
  1. World Bank, World Development Indicators: population 2025, urban share, agricultural and forest land, renewable fresh water per person and renewable energy share, read 30 October 2026.
  2. Strict Perfect Capita inputs: FAO food insecurity, WHO/UNICEF water and sanitation, World Bank clean cooking, learning poverty and poverty lines, UNESCO completion and the WHO service coverage index (2023, via Our World in Data).
  3. International Monetary Fund and World Bank press releases for each line of Capital already committed, as linked.
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