Bangladesh: Staff Report for the 2003 Article IV Consultation and Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility
IMF Staff Country Reports, July 11, 2003
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Bibliographic details
- Published: July 11, 2003
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451804140.002
Overview
- Publication date: July 11, 2003.
- Scope: IMF Staff Country Report assessing Bangladesh’s macroeconomic performance and proposing a Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility-supported program.
- Core message: Bangladesh achieved steady gross domestic product growth with manageable inflation, and improved social indicators, owing to prudent macroeconomic management and a renewal of structural reform.
Key findings
- Economic performance:
- "steady gross domestic product growth"
- "manageable inflation"
- "improved social indicators"
- Achievements attributed to "prudent macroeconomic management and a renewal of structural reform."
- Exchange rate management:
- "The government has been commended for the flexible management of the exchange rate."
- Program assessment:
- "Executive Directors consider the proposed policy program to be comprehensive and realistic for achieving the objectives."
Policy recommendations and program focus
- Fiscal reform priorities:
- "sustained revenue effort"
- "investments in infrastructure and human capital"
- Program design:
- The proposed program "builds on this record of policy implementation."
- Program support: three-year arrangement under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility.
Subject coverage and keywords
- Subject tags: Banking, Budget planning and preparation, Expenditure, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM), Revenue administration.
- Keywords: Bangladeshi authorities, Budget planning and preparation, CR, Global, government, ISCR, nationalized commercial banks, NCB reform, Poverty reduction, PRGF loan, PRGF-supported program, reform, strategy.
Publication metadata (selected)
- Pages: 109
- Volume: 2003
- Issue: 205
- Series: Country Report No. 2003/205
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451804140.002
- Stock No: 1BGDEA0052003
- ISBN: 9781451804140
- ISSN: 1934-7685
International Monetary Fund. "Bangladesh: Staff Report for the 2003 Article IV Consultation and Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility", IMF Staff Country Reports 2003, 205 (2003), July 11, 2003, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451804140.002.