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This paper compares the growth performances of Bangladesh and Kenya over the period 1960-2000. First, it provides an overview of the two countries' politics and geography and then considers their economic and social outcomes in detail: savings and investment, external transactions and social outcomes. The study also evaluates the causes of economic performances in the two countries, starting with measures of their total factor productivity, macroeconomic management, institutions and governance, competition and production costs and factors in agricultural growth.