Dhaka, Oct. 16 -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cited three major reasons for downward revision of Bangladesh's GDP-growth prospect for this fiscal year, including a pass-through ambience of uncertainty.

"I think there are three reasons, one of course is the policy mix has been tighter, the second tariffs, and uncertainty have played a big role," said Krishna Srinivasan, Director, IMF's Asia-Pacific Department, at a press conference on the Regional Economic Outlook for Asia-Pacific, held Thursday in Washington.

Mr Srinivasan was replying to a question from the Financial Express regarding the reasons behind the downgrading of the growth projections for Bangladesh in its World Economic Outlook for October.

In the October outl...