Orthoniti'r ১২ta - Fiscal Policy

This episode, recorded on 27 June 2026, moves beyond budget accounting to an in-depth discussion of fiscal policy and public financial management.

Anchored by Asif Iqbal, Asif Khan and I discussed:

• whether the Budget is really impractical or unrealistically ambitious?

• how the Budget compares with the now defunct IMF program

• the medium-term projections for revenue, expenditure, deficit, and financing

• the risks to the domestic and external financing

• why interest costs may be the most significant challenge in coming years

• why fiscal and monetary policy co-ordination is important for the economy

• how can public sector efficiency, transparency, and accountability be enhanced

In this episode, we tried to move beyond the conventional budget reviews that take place in Bangladesh, and attempted to explore the macroeconomy, government policymaking, and medium-term economic strategy from a comparative and data-driven perspective.