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Unnayan Onneshan
Update June 2010
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NEW RESEARCH REPORTSBangladesh Economic Update- Growth, Tax, Inflation and Consumers
The current update investigates the
nature of the growth and tax and subsidy policies relating to real sectors such
as agriculture and industry, in the backdrop of the passage of the National
Budget for the financial year 2010-2011. This is important as the current
government aspires to secure 8 per cent growth rate by 2013. An analysis on the
nature of growth is warranted since the jump for growth from 4 per cent to 6 per
cent required almost two decades, while the current government wants to achieve
another two percent spike within the span of five
years.
The update also provides an analysis on the price
movements in view of the forthcoming month of Ramadan. In this scrutiny, efforts
are made to build scenarios on the pressures of prices, based upon data of five
years. This also leads to have understanding on the future inflationary
pressure, a challenge the country currently facing. Agricultural Input Assistance Card: Direct Input Subsidy Disbursement
The Government is at a crossroad to
strike balance, through budgetary policies and allocation, between meeting the
targets it had set for in the election manifesto and multiple challenges it is
currently confronting on the economic front. The inherited investment slump,
inflationary pressure and short supply of energy from the previous interim
government have not been abated. Besides this the lagged impact of the global
crisis and the prevailing gap of the demand and supply resources, the Government
has to adopt countervailing policies to enhance productivity and growth. Thus in
this article an analysis of the existing situation of the various sector s of
the economy is presented including the direction of the balances that the
government requires to attain the
goals and targets it had set.
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