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Budget 2023-24: Bangladesh to focus on sustaining economic recovery

Bangladesh is planning to achieve a GDP (Gross domestic product) development pace of 7.5 percent in the following financial (FY24) as the nation is supposed to get back to a higher development direction by putting resources into useful areas and animating efficiency and homegrown interest, finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said today. The emphasis would be on supporting the monetary recuperation by effectively executing the boost bundles.

It will be difficult to keep the yearly annual inflation inside the 5.6 percent focus in this financial, he said while introducing the public spending plan for monetary 2023-24 worth over Tk 7.61 lakh crore in parliament today.

Average annual inflation is expected to stand at around 6 per cent, he said.

The Russia-Ukraine war circumstance affected expansion, government spending, equilibrium of installments, unfamiliar trade saves and trade rates, he noted.
Kamal said the government’s success in dealing with the economic crisis and subsequent speedy recovery along with the protection of people’s health in the COVID-19 situation has been globally appreciated.

To accomplish the development focus on, the public authority would continuously emerge from the contractionary strategy and put resources into progressing and new development initiating projects, he said.

For this, the spending plan for the following financial has set a higher objective of raising the public venture to 6.3 percent of the Gross domestic product, he said.

Fostering the operations area and transforming monetary administration will decrease time, cost and intricacy in venture and business handling, he said. Thus, confidential speculation, which has diminished somewhat in the current financial, is supposed to ascend to 27.4 percent of the Gross domestic product in the following monetary. 

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