Proposals for the National Budget 2008-9

This document contains a set of proposals prepared by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) for submission to the Ministry of Finance, Government of Bangladesh (GoB). These proposals were prepared in the context of the upcoming national budget FY2008-09 by keeping in view the need for enhanced production and economic growth, reduced inequality and interests of producers’ and consumers’. Accordingly, the proposed measures take into cognizance the challenges of revenue generation, investment promotion, export expansion, domestic industrialisation, balanced regional development, equity and needs of the marginalised and reforms of tax administration.