Date: 04 July, 2014
Doyananda Debnath
Phd 13105
I. About Bangladesh
II. Policy Making Process
III. Features of Policy Documents
IV. Development Planning Process
IV. Enhancement of Development
VI. Conclusion
◦ Bangladesh: Ethnically Homogeneous
◦ Independent: 1971
◦ Area: 130,168 km2
◦ Population: 160 million (8th rank!)
◦ Population Growth Rate: 1.59%
◦ Life Expectancy: 70.36 years
◦ Population Density: 1,237 per sq.
km. (12th rank!)
Bangladesh
(http://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=vguIQNmUijU)
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GDP per capita: 840 USD
(568.72 USD 2000 price)
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GDP growth: 6.30%
Inflation rate: 6.64%
Unemployment rate: 15%
Public debt: 22.8% of GDP
Population below poverty
line: 21.5%
* All data in 2012
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Vision: Rupakolpa 2021
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FYP/PRSP: Development
Plan
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MTBF: Public Investment
Plan
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ADP: Annual Public
Investment
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Leader: PM
◦ Playing leadership role
(vision)
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CEAs: MOF, PC (MOP),
ERD
◦ Development policy
formulation;
◦ Public investment planning;
and
◦ Aid management.
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Key Actors
Ministries, Local Govt.,
Donors (DP), Other
Stakeholders
◦ Effects CEAs
functions; and
◦ Role of
implementation.
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A long-term Perspective Plan
2010-2021.
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Vision: Transforming socioeconomic environment of
Bangladesh from a low
income economy to the first
stages of a middle income
economy.
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The Vision 2021 has set solid development targets
for Bangladesh by the end of 2021.
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It targeted to have a higher standard of living,
better education, better social justice and a more
equitable socio-economic environment.
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The implementation of Vision 2021 will be done
through two medium term development plans with
the spanning of FY11/12-15/16 (6FYP) and
FY16/17-20/21 (7FYP).
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Income and Poverty: Attaining average real GDP growth rate
of 7.3% per year over the Plan period (to achieve $2000 per
capita and reducing poverty to below 16%).
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Human Resource Development: Achieving 100 percent net
enrolment rate for primary education and increasing
enrolment rate in 12th class to 60% (to attain unemployment
rate below 5%).
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Information and Communications Technology (ICT): Increase
public spending on Research and Development to 1 percent
of GDP by FY15 and 1.4 percent by FY 21.
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A strategic directions and
Policy Framework for
FY2011-FY2015
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Purpose/Goal:
Accelerating Growth and
Reducing Poverty.
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A large part of the financing is targeted from the
domestic public resource mobilization, private
savings and remittances.
Much of the higher investment will be deployed to
reduce and eventually eliminate the infrastructure
constraint (primarily power and transport) and to
finance human development.
The strong efforts (proper policies, institutions,
and incentives) will be made to enter into Public
Private Partnerships (PPP) to finance in priority
areas of infrastructure and human development.
The total investment:
$ 168.75 billion
Public investment:
$ 38.75 billion (22.8%)
Private sector investment:
$ 130 billion (77.2%)
Domestic financing:
$ 152.50 billion (90.7%)
External financing:
$ 16.25 billion (9.3%)
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Infrastructure Development: The core infrastructure
development primarily in power and transport.
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Promotion Industry: Promoting industry through SME.
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Enable Technology: Introducing appropriate ICT based
environment and strong emphasis on technical education.
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Population and Health: Renewed efforts for further
slowdown the growth of population through emphasize
girl’s education, female re-productive health, population
control service delivery based on public-private
partnership, and social mobilization.
Capacity Development: The capacity development through
four pillars: strengthening the civil service; promoting
devolution to local governments; strengthening publicprivate partnerships; and reforming planning and
budgetary processes.
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The initiative of Medium Term
Budgetary Framework (MTBF)
process is an improvement of
the efficiency of public
spending.
The MTBF is strategic and
indicative planning that links
medium-term development plan
(FYP) and annual Development
plan (ADP)
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Well documented but ill implemented!
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Factor Endowment: The enhancing of factor
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Gender Equity: The equal opportunity for women in
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Investment Plan: The MTBF budgetary plan
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Anti-Corruption: The initiative to strong anti-
endowment (land, capital, credit and skills) of the
poor including women is not specified.
all sections of the society with the objective of
integration is absent.
(especially for development budget!) is not
insurance for ADP implementation.
corruption strategy is still poor.
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The basic foundations for
coordination mechanisms
established among central
economic agencies (CEAs);
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Donor advice but the
dependency of aid is declining;
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Public-private-partnership (PPP)
initiative (but not effective yet!);
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Mega project in the country: JMB
(completed), Tessta Barrage
(completed), Padma Bridge (ongoing!);
Poverty level is still high but it is
declining!
1. Bangladesh has dysfunctional politics and a
stunted private sector. Yet it has been surprisingly
good at improving the lives of its poor– The
Economist (3 Nov, 2012).
2. Bangladesh sustained healthy GDP growth and
moderate single digit inflation in FY14– The World
Bank (9 April, 2014).