Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today said he will not backpedal from his decision to allow legalising laundered money in the upcoming fiscal year despite growing criticism.
The domestic stock market took a dive yesterday, the first trading session since Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal proposed the national budget for the fiscal year of 2022-23 in parliament on Thursday.
The government has cut its target on food distribution, which supports poor and low-income people, by 5 per cent to 30.95 lakh tonnes in the next fiscal year from the revised budget of 2021-22, finance ministry documents showed.
The national budget for the fiscal year 2022-23 was proposed to the parliament on June 9 by the finance minister. But how well did this budget take into accound the current inflationary situation of Bangladesh's economy?