A particular finding in the latest Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) blows the illusion of GDP growth being the “be all and end all” of development into smithereens. The data shows that we have now reached record high levels of inequality with the Gini coefficient, an economic measure of equality, standing at 0.482 as of 2016, up from 0.458 in 2010, which reflects an increased rich-poor gap.