UNB, Dhaka :Speaker and CPA chairperson Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Tuesday said parliamentarians can play an important role in facing economic and financial challenges in South Asia through making policies and implementing those properly.”Parliamentarians can play an important role either directly or indirectly through their involvement in policy making and by ensuring proper implementation of the policies,” she said.Dr Sharmin was addressing the inaugural session of a workshop titled ‘Economic and Financial Challenge for Emerging Economies in Asia, India and Southeast Asia’ at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the capital.The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Bangladesh Parliament jointly arranged the two-day workshop attended, among others, by delegates from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.The CPA chairperson said, the parliamentarians are increasingly taking a proactive role through their involvement in preparing national budget, national development plans, formulating pro-poor policies and laws and ensuring greater equality for marginal groups.She urged the parliamentarians to work for a better future and remember always the commonness that binds various countries together.The Bangladesh Speaker said, Bangladesh and other South Asian countries need to sustain GDP and remittance growth, create jobs, contain inflation and make progress in improving the quality of service delivery in health and education in order to achieve inclusive growth in the future.Dr Sharmin said, the continuation of economic development of this region depends on how rapidly and effectively the South Asian countries can face different challenges.
