{"id":253285,"date":"2025-11-09T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253285\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:39:09","slug":"imf-team-meets-bnp-discusses-reforms-in-financial-social-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253285\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF team meets BNP, discusses reforms in financial, social sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

The IMF team, led by its Bangladesh Mission Chief Chris Papageorgiou, held the meeting at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office, said BNP Media Cell member Shairul Kabir Khan.<\/p>\n

BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury led the four-member party delegation.<\/p>\n


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The other members were BNP Chairperson’s Advisory Council members Md Ismail Zabihullah and Ziauddin Hyder, and BNP Organising Secretary Shama Obaed.<\/p>\n

Shairul said both sides discussed the preliminary findings of the IMF’s ongoing mission review report.<\/p>\n

“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’s key policy priorities,” he said.<\/p>\n

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

“They said the BNP believes that long-term growth is not possible without an accountable and transparent financial management system.”<\/p>\n

He said the IMF team appreciated the BNP’s reform-focused policy priorities and constructive approach.<\/p>\n

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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105411,70398,105407,105404,105409,105402,105406,84,105410,105412,1294,105403,19871,105405,10793,105413,105408,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-253285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-amir-khasru-mahmud-chowdhury","tag-bangladesh-economy","tag-bangladesh-financial-sector","tag-bangladesh-nationalist-party","tag-banking-sector-reform","tag-bnp","tag-bnp-imf-meeting","tag-business","tag-chris-papageorgiou","tag-economic-stability-bangladesh","tag-economy","tag-financial-reforms","tag-imf","tag-imf-bangladesh","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-social-sector-spending","tag-tax-reform-bangladesh","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}