{"id":171608,"date":"2025-11-09T15:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/171608\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T15:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:41:11","slug":"imf-team-meets-bnp-discusses-reforms-in-financial-social-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/171608\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF team meets BNP, discusses reforms in financial, social sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtejustify\"><strong>A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) met leaders of the BNP today (9 November) and discussed various issues, including reforms in the financial and social sectors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The IMF team, led by its Bangladesh Mission Chief Chris Papageorgiou, held the meeting at the BNP Chairperson&#8217;s Gulshan office, said BNP Media Cell member Shairul Kabir Khan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury led the four-member party delegation.<\/p>\n<p>        <a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #2b4949; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMIivlQsw2ZKrAw?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tbsnews.net\/sites\/all\/themes\/sloth\/images\/google_news.svg\" alt=\"The Business Standard Google News\" style=\"display: inline-block; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; height: 30px;\"\/><br \/>\n            Keep updated, follow The Business Standard&#8217;s Google news channel<br \/>\n          <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The other members were BNP Chairperson&#8217;s Advisory Council members Md Ismail Zabihullah and Ziauddin Hyder, and BNP Organising Secretary Shama Obaed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Shairul said both sides discussed the preliminary findings of the IMF&#8217;s ongoing mission review report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&#8220;The key issues of discussion included value-added tax (VAT) harmonisation and the reduction of exemptions under a new technical assistance programme, increasing corporate tax to improve the GDP-to-tax revenue ratio, reforming the banking sector, and raising social sector spending, which the BNP delegation highlighted as one of the party&#8217;s key policy priorities,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">He said the BNP delegation stressed that reforms in the financial, tax, and social sectors are essential to ensure sustainable economic stability in Bangladesh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&#8220;They said the BNP believes that long-term growth is not possible without an accountable and transparent financial management system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">He said the IMF team appreciated the BNP&#8217;s reform-focused policy priorities and constructive approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The meeting ended with both sides expressing hope for continued policy dialogue and greater co-operation in the future, Shairul added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) met leaders of the BNP today (9 November) and discussed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[98036,53145,98032,98029,98034,36363,98031,79,98035,98037,179,18,98028,19,13484,98030,16243,17,98038,98033],"class_list":{"0":"post-171608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-amir-khasru-mahmud-chowdhury","9":"tag-bangladesh-economy","10":"tag-bangladesh-financial-sector","11":"tag-bangladesh-nationalist-party","12":"tag-banking-sector-reform","13":"tag-bnp","14":"tag-bnp-imf-meeting","15":"tag-business","16":"tag-chris-papageorgiou","17":"tag-economic-stability-bangladesh","18":"tag-economy","19":"tag-eire","20":"tag-financial-reforms","21":"tag-ie","22":"tag-imf","23":"tag-imf-bangladesh","24":"tag-international-monetary-fund","25":"tag-ireland","26":"tag-social-sector-spending","27":"tag-tax-reform-bangladesh"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115520503095336177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}