Bangladesh Add International
Economic policies aimed at encouraging private enterprise and investment, privatising public industries, reinstating budgetary discipline, and liberalising the import regime have been accelerated. In the late 1990s the government’s economic policies became far more entrenched, and some gains were lost, which was highlighted by a precipitous drop in foreign direct investment in 2000 and 2001. In June 2003 the IMF authorized 3-year, $490-million plan as portion of the Poverty Reduction and Development Facility for Bangladesh that aimed to help the…