The new finance minister, Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, may have arrived in office with a long list of priorities -- fiscal reform, banking stability, and negotiations with international lenders.

The incoming government will have to make austerity a top priority at the leadership level for fiscal consolidation. Enhancing accountability mechanisms is essential to improving expenditure efficiency. Parliamentary oversight of public funds must be strengthened.

Raising investment and taming inflation will be the main economic challenges for the next elected government, private think tank Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) said yesterday.

The FY2026 budget must be more than a mere fiscal statement.

Bangladesh's economy faces instability, inflation, and political unrest hindering growth.

Sustaining the development that has taken place in Bangladesh in the past 14 years and curbing inequality are key major challenges facing the economy owing to the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war, said Planning Minister MA Mannan.

A political economy lens is needed to understand the current situation of Bangladesh.