National budget Bangladesh
Cultural advocates voice frustration over FY25 budget allocation
Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali presented this proposed budget in the National Parliament on Thursday. However, representatives from the cultural sector have expressed dissatisfaction with this allocation, much like in previous years.
Finance minister infected with Covid-19
Cabinet Secretary for Coordination and Reforms Mahmudul Hossain Khan told The Daily Star
National Budget 2023-24: Of sweet accounting and sour economics
If we choose only 10 commodities and measure inflation, the figure will land at no less than 20 percent.
Why is government support for poor going to non-poor?
Only 40 percent of social safety net budget catering to poor, vulnerable groups
National Budget 2023-24 / Education lags again in funding and action
The new budget has not displayed cognisance of the need for post-pandemic recovery and remedial actions.
How did hundred crore taka budget go past lakh crore?
What is the national budget? What is the history of the budget? Since when did the government start using the budget as a tool to manage the income and expenditure of a country and provide funds for development expenditures? And how did Bangladesh's budget increase to this existing volume?
Utilising Funds: Health ministry fares worst, yet again
The health ministry continues to struggle with utilisation of funds allocated in the national budget, like it did in the past few years.
What Bangladesh's new budget should offer to common people
The upcoming budget poses significant challenges – arguably the most challenging in recent times – for economic policymaking in Bangladesh.
Managing the politics of budget-making
The main focus of the FY24 budget must be on economic stabilisation.
Govt should punish money launderers, not reward them
Allowing them to whiten their money is not only immoral, but also illogical.
Not for respite, but for restraints
When reassurance was needed, he exuded panic.
Process on to collect $1.5b as budget support
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government started a process to collect an additional $1,000 million as budgetary support to tackle future emergencies and the economic crisis stemming from the Russia-Ukraine war.