Bangladesh Bank (BB) has implemented a series of measures, some to appease the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to manage inflation. These measures include adjustments to the repo and reverse repo rates, marginal increases in banking interest rates, and higher treasury bill interest rates. However, the question arises: are these policies sufficient to effectively address the
IMF loan conditions and Bangladesh's new monetary policy: The IMF loan is not large. It may be able to finance three months’ import costs. This loan will not help us survive, but the prestige of getting an IMF loan will lead to us being able to acquire more US dollars from other sources. This may help in mitigating the dollar crisis that looms if our exports don’t go up and if