Investors are excited about Bangladesh, but it must address a huge infrastructure shortfall.

Accounting giant Deloitte has established a direct presence in Bangladesh, which is now on multinationals’ radar and is spawning its own enterprises that want to expand overseas. Jason Mitchell reports. 

With many of the big global cities struggling with infrastructure problems, rising wages and high office and land costs, investors are increasingly looking to smaller second- and third-tier cities in which to base themselves. But where are the emerging urban areas that are posing a threat to their larger counterparts?

Bangladesh's export growth may be slowing, but finance minister Abul Maal A Muhith remains strident in his ambitions for the country. Courtney Fingar talked to him at the IMF/World Bank annual meeting in Tokyo.

As the BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – realise the decade-old prediction that they would become economic superpowers, attention now turns to the global economies that will follow them.