The white paper on the country’s economy will be submitted today highlighting how political driven data created the ‘villainous’ development narrative by the ousted Awami League regime.
Out of 23 topics — such as macro-economy, structural section, social sector planning, instable market, policy outlook, health, education and employment— ‘the villain of development narrative because of political driven data is very crucial’, said Debapriya Bhattacharya on Saturday.
Debapriya, head of the 12-memebr committee on formulating the much-talked-about paper, said they were going to meet the chief adviser at around 12:00pm.
Debapriya, also a distinguished fellow of the local think-tank Centre for Policy Dialogue, has already said that they would make the report public on Monday.
The interim government that assumed power on August 8, three days after deposed prime minister Shekh Hasina fled to India on August 5 amid a mas uprising, appointed the full committee on August 28 and asked it to submit the report in 90 days.
The members of the committee are professor AK Enamul Haque, dean, Faculty of Business and Economics, East West University, Ferdaus Ara Begum, chief executive officer of Business Initiative Leading Development, Imran Matin, executive director, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development at BRAC University, Kazi Iqbal, senior research fellow at Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, M Tamim, a professor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, a former special assistant to the chief adviser (2008), Mohammad Abu Eusuf, a professor of the Department of Development Studies at the University of Dhaka, professor Mustafizur Rahman, a distinguished fellow at Centre for Policy Dialogue, Selim Raihan, a professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Dhaka and executive director, South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (SANEM), Sharmind Neelormi, a professor at the Department of Economics at Jahangirnagar University, Tasneem Arefa Siddiqui, a former professor of the Department of Political Science at the University of Dhaka and founding chair, Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, and Zahid Hossain, a former lead economist at the World Bank.
A committee member while describing the concept of white paper said it is utilised by a new regime to fix new policies.