Bangladesh Development Update, October 2015 : On a Stable Path

Progress on reducing extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity need to be further enhanced in the near-term by sustaining Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and remittances growth, creating jobs, containing inflation, and making progress on improvin...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Report
Language:English
en_US
Published: Dhaka, Bangladesh 2015
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/10/25209034/bangladesh-development-update-stable-path
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spelling okr-10986-229302021-04-23T14:04:12Z Bangladesh Development Update, October 2015 : On a Stable Path World Bank BANKING SECTOR BANKING SUPERVISION CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REFORMS CREATING JOBS GARMENT INDUSTRY INFLATION POVERTY PPP PRIVATE INVESTMENTS PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP LAW PUBLIC SERVIICE DELIVERY Progress on reducing extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity need to be further enhanced in the near-term by sustaining Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and remittances growth, creating jobs, containing inflation, and making progress on improving the quality of public service delivery. Private investments need to increase significantly to achieve the government’s 7 percent growth target for FY16. Moving forward in the immediate future, stronger attention is needed to (i) achieve safety and labor rights compliance in the garment industry, (ii) complete the critical ongoing road, electricity and gas development projects, (iii) implement the Public Private Partnership (PPP) law, (iv) improve the efficiency and solvency of the banking sector through better banking supervision and oversight by the Bangladesh Bank and corporate governance reforms in public banks, and (v) provide access to serviced land to domestic and foreign investors through the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) initiative. 2015-11-10T16:42:57Z 2015-11-10T16:42:57Z 2015-10 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/10/25209034/bangladesh-development-update-stable-path http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22930 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Dhaka, Bangladesh Economic & Sector Work :: Economic Updates and Modeling Economic & Sector Work South Asia Bangladesh
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topic BANKING SECTOR
BANKING SUPERVISION
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REFORMS
CREATING JOBS
GARMENT INDUSTRY
INFLATION
POVERTY
PPP
PRIVATE INVESTMENTS
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP LAW
PUBLIC SERVIICE DELIVERY
spellingShingle BANKING SECTOR
BANKING SUPERVISION
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REFORMS
CREATING JOBS
GARMENT INDUSTRY
INFLATION
POVERTY
PPP
PRIVATE INVESTMENTS
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP LAW
PUBLIC SERVIICE DELIVERY
World Bank
Bangladesh Development Update, October 2015 : On a Stable Path
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description Progress on reducing extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity need to be further enhanced in the near-term by sustaining Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and remittances growth, creating jobs, containing inflation, and making progress on improving the quality of public service delivery. Private investments need to increase significantly to achieve the government’s 7 percent growth target for FY16. Moving forward in the immediate future, stronger attention is needed to (i) achieve safety and labor rights compliance in the garment industry, (ii) complete the critical ongoing road, electricity and gas development projects, (iii) implement the Public Private Partnership (PPP) law, (iv) improve the efficiency and solvency of the banking sector through better banking supervision and oversight by the Bangladesh Bank and corporate governance reforms in public banks, and (v) provide access to serviced land to domestic and foreign investors through the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) initiative.
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title Bangladesh Development Update, October 2015 : On a Stable Path
title_short Bangladesh Development Update, October 2015 : On a Stable Path
title_full Bangladesh Development Update, October 2015 : On a Stable Path
title_fullStr Bangladesh Development Update, October 2015 : On a Stable Path
title_full_unstemmed Bangladesh Development Update, October 2015 : On a Stable Path
title_sort bangladesh development update, october 2015 : on a stable path
publisher Dhaka, Bangladesh
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url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/10/25209034/bangladesh-development-update-stable-path
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