Till date,conceptualisation of poverty in Bangladesh’s policy making is limited to income/consumption poverty where a rise or fall of income/consumption above or below a pre-defined poverty line determines changes in poverty. To identify the budgetary and fiscal measures which can be...

The national budget for the fiscal year 2009-2010 will be an important event on a number of counts, particularly in the current national and global contexts. From the national perspective, it will be the first one by the newly-elected government. Arguably, it will be inspired by the election...

The upcoming national budget for the fiscal year 2010-11 will be underpinned by a number of challenges in the current national and global contexts. This budget will be the first year of the medium-term planning framework under the Sixth Five Year Plan (FY2011-FY2015) and the 10 year Perspective...

This document contains a set of proposals prepared by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) for submission to the Ministry of Finance, Government of Bangladesh (GoB). These proposals were prepared in the context of the upcoming national budget FY2008-09 by keeping in view the need for enhanced...

The National Budget for the fiscal year 2007-08 (FY08) and the Revised Budget of FY07 were placed before the country on 7 June 2007. The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), in continuation of its tradition of presenting its analysis of budgets prepared by successive governments, has prepared the...

The present document seeks to trace the emerging trends in the Bangladesh economy in the fiscal year 2011-12 (FY12). To this end, the paper first establishes the benchmark conditions of the current fiscal year by sketching a consolidated picture of FY11 with an analysis of the year-closing data....

Yet applying our analytical techniques on the existing knowledge base, it can be deduced that in the global spectrum Bangladesh lies somewhere between the emerging economies and the low income (nonâ€oil exporting) countries. So it will have a mix of the possible impacts of the both sets of...

The newly elected government proposed its first budget on 11 June 2009 with a view to support a trajectory of moderate growth, reduced poverty through employment generation and expansion of safety nets, low price level and to tackle the impact of the global financial crisis. The Centre for...

This year's budget speech set out a slogan : "Towards Building a Happy, Prosperous and Caring Bangladesh". It included a detailed narrative of past achievements. Contextualisation of global trends. A revised MTMF taking cognisance of the new realities. A comparative matrix of past promises and...

This Report puts forward recommendations emerging from the Conference on Development with Equity and Justice : Immediate Tasks for the Newly Elected Government organised by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). The Conference was held at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre during...