Shakhawat Hossain
Courtesy New Age 27/8/09
The Economic Relations Division has been conveyed the message recently by the
ERD additional secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told New Age that they were surprised by the message.
He observed that Dhaka should have been favoured as an MCA recipient as reports from agencies like UNESCO, WHO, World Bank and IMF reflected
He said the ministry was yet to examine the reasons for the country’s being dropped out.
Finance minister AMA Muhith had expressed optimism about getting MCA fund after a meeting with some
This is for the fifth straight occasion that the
Dhaka has long been trying to qualify for the fund mainly to repair the image after Transparency International’s perception index portrayed
Poor performance indicators in the areas of corruption and governance held back
Sources in the ERD said incomplete data on progress made in primary education and fiscal transparency could be the potential reasons for this year’s failure to meet the criteria set by Millennium Challenge Corporation, an independent body administering the MCA.
They said the USAID in Dhaka had wanted the ERD to send updates on fiscal policy and primary education so that it could ask the MCC to review the
The ERD has already asked the ministries and departments concerned to send the updates on the issues by Thursday.
The
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