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The proposed budget does not have much to offer in terms of concrete measures and innovative policies to combat Covid-19 induced challenges, said Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) today. "Priority has been given to health, agriculture and employment generation sectors in the budget speech by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal," said CPD Executive Director Fahmida Khatun at a
The government project undertaken to prepare the country s first-ever poverty registry has not been completed in more than seven years, with the data collected for it already rendered useless.
The National Household Database (NHD), initially known as the Bangladesh Poverty Database, is meant to help streamline the beneficiary selection process for social safety net programmes by gathering socioeconomic data of each household in the country.
Implemented in collaboration between the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and the Department of Disaster Management (DDM), the project beginning in 2013 was supposed to be completed by 2017.
But the Tk 328 crore project, financed by the government and the World Bank, saw its deadline pushed to June 2021 and cost balloon to Tk 727 crore.
Look beyond dev figures for LDC graduation: CPD
Staff Correspondent
4th March, 2021 11:01:12
Bangladesh has to look beyond average development indicators in light of SDGs and its long-term vision for smooth and sustainable LDC graduation with momentum, the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) said on Thursday.
“Inequalities lie in average development indicators. So, the country has to go beyond the average development figures for sake of inclusive and sustainable graduation from LDC group,” CPD’s Distinguished Fellow Prof Mustafizur Rahman said at a discussion.
The independent think tank held a discussion on ‘Moving out from the LDC group: Strategies for graduation with momentum’ in a bid to put forward a set of suggestions to facilitate Bangladesh’s formal exit from LDC group in 2026.
Remittance Inflow: Proactive steps can fetch $30b a year
Say speakers at a webinar, urge more govt incentives for remitting money through formal channels Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
The country could receive as much as $30 billion in remittance annually if proactive steps are taken by the government and other stakeholders, including the banking sector, speakers said at a dialogue yesterday.
They said the use of formal channels to remit money home was still not at the level. The channel also lacked the required speed to encourage more remitters to use it and the speakers suggested that further government incentives could encourage them to use the formal channel.