Given Bangladesh's performance in Open Budget Survey 2023, there is room for improvement in the country's budget process.
Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali will place the national budget for the fiscal year (2024-2025) at the Jatiya Sangsad this afternoon
The government has set a target to export goods and services worth $110 billion in the fiscal year of 2026-27, which is double the earnings recorded in the last financial year
This will be the first meeting of the council since the new government took office after the January 7 parliamentary elections. Thus, it is the maiden meeting for the new finance minister on the budget and the overall macroeconomic situation.
CPD Distinguished Fellow Debapriya Bhattacharya says
The measures taken in the proposed budget for the next fiscal year have failed to address the most difficult challenge of containing inflation, and as a result, the suffering of common people will increase further, the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) said yesterday.
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday said that though he is worried about the elevated level of consumer prices, the situation is still under the government’s control.
An underwhelming budget at a time of overwhelming crisis
The reserves stood at $29.91 billion today in contrast to $42.20 billion during the same period a year ago.
The size of the upcoming budget may go up by 30 percent from the current fiscal year's revised outlay as the government seeks to fast-track the giant projects and complete one or two in its current tenure. The planned Tk 340,600 crore budget for fiscal 2016-17 would be 17.4 percent of the gross domestic product. In terms of share in the GDP, the planned budget is almost the same as the budget of fiscal 2015-16.