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The committee constituted for preparing the ‘White Paper on the State of Bangladesh Economy’ on Thursday sought opinions from interested citizens on 15 issues ranging from accuracy of public statistics to youth employment.

Led by Centre for Policy Dialogue’s distinguished fellow Debapriya Bhattacharya, the committee said in a press release on the day that participation of all would help it to prepare a complete report.


The committee that was appointed by the interim government to prepare the report in 90 days requested interest citizens to send their opinions at [email protected], www.facebook.com/whitepaperbd2024, www.linkedin.com/company/whitepaperbd2024.

The interested citizens can also submit their opinions in a box to be kept on the ground floor of the committee office at block-4 at planning commission.

Opinions have been sought on the following issues: accuracy and dependency on government statistics, challenge of macro-economy, review of growth in gross domestic product, inflation and its shocks, poverty, inequality and danger, internal revenue mobilisation, fixing priorities on public expenditure, balance of foreign debt and its threshold, review of mega projects, actual picture of banking sector, situation in the energy and power sector, business-environment and private sector investment, illegal money and its smuggling, youth employment and dynamics of the labour market, overseas job market and rights of the expatriate Bangladeshi workers.  Â