Proposed Bangladesh national budget 2023-24: Instead of addressing our biggest economic challenges – corruption, for example – the budget, over the years, has become a tool to further extend benefits to wealthy and politically connected groups. And this budget is no different. It fails to ensure better utilisation of government subsidies, most of which ends up in the pockets
When the national budget fails to give due recognition to the needs and priorities of a vital sector such as education, is it the failure of the Minister of Finance, who presents the budget on behalf of the government?