Payments consumed almost half of the national budget

For the first time, Bangladesh’s outstanding government debt has surged past the Tk 21 trillion mark, pushed upward by chronically weak revenue collection and years of ambitious development spending.

Every child born in Bangladesh today is born with a debt.

The government should prioritise efficient utilisation of borrowed funds to ensure maximum returns on investment.

Bangladesh's debt burden would not increase much even if the government borrowed $12 billion from Russia to build the Rooppur nuclear power plant, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said yesterday.