Economic Reporter :
The World Bank today reconfirmed the lending agency’s commitment to Bangladesh and its people to help for achieving their goals and dreams.
“A lot has been achieved and a lot needs to be achieved. I just want to reconfirm our commitment to continue support to the people of Bangladesh to achieve their goals and dreams,” said the World Bank Country Director for Bangladesh and Bhutan Mercy Tembon.
He was briefing to reporters while a delegation of the World Bank Executive Directors met Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal at a city hotel on Sunday.
The Finance Minister and World Bank Executive Director Patrizio Pagano also spoke at the briefing. Nine Executive Directors and two Alternate Directors are currently visiting Bangladesh.
Mercy Tembon said they are at the end of their Current Partnership Framework (CPF) with Bangladesh stretching from 2015-2019 adding, “I’m so happy that we’ve delivered almost all the projects and we’re in the last lap of doing that.”
She informed that in January 2020, the World Bank is going to start its next CPF with Bangladesh for the next four years where it would be determined how much fund would be allocated for Bangladesh in various sectors.
“It’s coming up, the resources will be made available and we really want to move this country into the next level… We all hope that the resources (allocations) are increased and Bangladesh is benefitted,” she said.
Answering to a question, World Bank Executive Director Patrizio said in order to reach the government’s target for achieving a double digit growth by 2024, the country needs to do a lot of things.
He said the country itself needs to raise its own resources, it reforms to increase the revenue base in order to finance the investment needed to grow at such fast rate.
“At the same time, if you want to grow fast, you also need to invest in your own people as investment does not mean only in infrastructure but also in human capital as well as in the areas of health and education and the country has done a lot in these areas,”
Citing that life expectancy in Bangladesh is higher than any other country in this region, the World Bank Executive Director said, “This means that the investment made over the years has been made in the right direction in order to help people.”
The World Bank today reconfirmed the lending agency’s commitment to Bangladesh and its people to help for achieving their goals and dreams.
“A lot has been achieved and a lot needs to be achieved. I just want to reconfirm our commitment to continue support to the people of Bangladesh to achieve their goals and dreams,” said the World Bank Country Director for Bangladesh and Bhutan Mercy Tembon.
He was briefing to reporters while a delegation of the World Bank Executive Directors met Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal at a city hotel on Sunday.
The Finance Minister and World Bank Executive Director Patrizio Pagano also spoke at the briefing. Nine Executive Directors and two Alternate Directors are currently visiting Bangladesh.
Mercy Tembon said they are at the end of their Current Partnership Framework (CPF) with Bangladesh stretching from 2015-2019 adding, “I’m so happy that we’ve delivered almost all the projects and we’re in the last lap of doing that.”
She informed that in January 2020, the World Bank is going to start its next CPF with Bangladesh for the next four years where it would be determined how much fund would be allocated for Bangladesh in various sectors.
“It’s coming up, the resources will be made available and we really want to move this country into the next level… We all hope that the resources (allocations) are increased and Bangladesh is benefitted,” she said.
Answering to a question, World Bank Executive Director Patrizio said in order to reach the government’s target for achieving a double digit growth by 2024, the country needs to do a lot of things.
He said the country itself needs to raise its own resources, it reforms to increase the revenue base in order to finance the investment needed to grow at such fast rate.
“At the same time, if you want to grow fast, you also need to invest in your own people as investment does not mean only in infrastructure but also in human capital as well as in the areas of health and education and the country has done a lot in these areas,”
Citing that life expectancy in Bangladesh is higher than any other country in this region, the World Bank Executive Director said, “This means that the investment made over the years has been made in the right direction in order to help people.”
