It should draw up plans for a new financial blueprint to develop the health sector, broaden the tax net and reduce income inequality for the recovery, they suggested. “Recovery should get more importance than development,” said Zaid Bakht, a researcher at Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. Economist Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad said development of the health sector should get the highest priority now. Health sector received 4.9 percent while social safety and welfare got 5.6 percent. The government must raise fundings for health, agriculture, and social safety and welfare while revenue will shrink alongside exports, he pointed out.

Source: bd News24 May 30, 2020 17:48 UTC