On June 1, 2023, Hasina government has unveiled the national budget titled “Towards a Smart Bangladesh after the march of development” for the fiscal year 2023-24. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal placed Taka 7.6 trillion budget which is 13.5 percent bigger than FY 23 with a ‘supposed’ focus on tackling inflation, generating jobs, and efforts […]
The government’s major concerns in finalizing the FY24 budget are limited revenue income and compliance with IMF loan requirements. The record budget of Taka 7617.85 billion has a record deficit of Taka 2578.85 billion when foreign funding and loans are factored in. To meet the massive spending, a total revenue target of Taka 5039 billion […]
Bangladesh Bank created fresh money of more than Taka 500 billion in the July-December period in the name of budget support, the highest in recent history (The Business Standard, January 03, 2023), to compensate the money looted from the banks by the Capitalists elites. The default loans of the commercial banks have already reached Taka […]
Janata Bank and Islami Bank’s new loan scams have come to light soon after the incidents of the looting of Taka 95 billion from three banks by opening fake address and paper companies were revealed. On December 18, the Daily Star Newspaper published a report that in 2020, four big tycoons of the country took […]
