Bangladesh, July 10 -- e have now commenced the first full fiscal under the BNP government elected in February, and this is where its economic management must come to the fore and set a new direction for the country. It has passed its first budget, it has had time to make the appointments it wants, and it has had time to settle. Now is the time for results.

The country recorded 4.14 percent growth in its gross domestic product (GDP) in the just-concluded 2025-26, up from 3.49 percent a year earlier, according to provisional data from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), while the government has set an ambitious growth target of 6.5 percent for the current financial year. Most projections from internationally credible sources indic...