quota system

What started with students protesting against a quota system for government jobs eventually turned into broader demonstrations calling for an end to Hasina’s authoritarian rule.

A helpful program note by dramaturg Adrian Trujillo Centeno explains that the law eliminated “the national origins quota system that had favored Northern and Western Europeans since the 1920s.”

At least 25 percent of parliamentary seats must go to women, according to the quota system that also reserves nine seats for minorities.

Execution risks remain, as does uncertainty surrounding the U.S. tariff quota system, Deutsche adds.

The EU says Brussels and Washington will work to cut that number and that they will be replaced by a quota system to come beyond 1 August.