Dhaka, Aug. 6 -- Listing challenges facing the economy ahead, like high inflation, unemployment, energy shortage and higher US tariffs, Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed says restoring business confidence tops it all.

On the achievements of the post-uprising interim government on the economic front so far, he told reporters Wednesday that the country's economy had been lifted from the edge of an abyss.

"One needs to have vision and acumen to see it instead of watching it from the surface," he says about the economic recovery process.

"There were very precarious challenges before the interim government when it took office and now the country could come to a place of comfort," he adds.

The finance adviser was talking to the newsmen af...