IMF Staff Country Reports

Bangladesh: Selected Issues

July 22, 2005

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Bangladesh: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper reviews Bangladesh’s recent growth experience and per capita income. The paper identifies several key impediments to growth, namely: poor governance; restrictive trade and regulatory regimes; and inadequate investment in human capital and physical infrastructure. The paper makes the case that the medium-term fiscal strategy should be centered on boosting the revenue performance of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) by reorganizing it along functional lines, adopting a system of self-assessment, establishing a risk-based auditing system, and introducing a unique taxpayer identification number.

Subject: Auditing, Banking, Commercial banks, Expenditure, Exports, Financial institutions, Income and capital gains taxes, International trade, State-owned banks, Taxes

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Bangladesh, Commercial banks, CR, East Asia, Export, Exports, Growth performance, Income and capital gains taxes, ISCR, MDG goal, Reform, Reform state-owned enterprises, RMG, RMG sector, RMG-export competitiveness, South Asia, State-owned banks

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    56

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2005/242

  • Stock No:

    1BGDEA2005002

  • ISBN:

    9781451804157

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685