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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 04, 2023
Mustafa Kamal dismisses reports about Bangladesh request for IMF loan

Economy

UNB
20 July, 2022, 04:10 pm
Last modified: 21 July, 2022, 11:42 am

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Mustafa Kamal dismisses reports about Bangladesh request for IMF loan

UNB
20 July, 2022, 04:10 pm
Last modified: 21 July, 2022, 11:42 am
Mustafa Kamal dismisses reports about Bangladesh request for IMF loan

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has dismissed a media report that Bangladesh is seeking a loan of $4.5 billion in aid for economic recovery. 

"Neither we placed any proposal to IMF for a loan, nor IMF made an offer to us," he told reporters while briefing on the outcomes of the two consecutive meetings of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) and the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) virtually held on Wednesday. 

He made remarks while a delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been visiting the country and holding meetings with  Bangladesh Bank officials. 

"Actually, a consultative committee of the IMF is now visiting the country which has no issue to discuss any loans proposal", he added, saying, "We don't need any loan from the IMF right at this moment. We made no request for any funding, not any proposal came from IMF".

He, however, said if any loan is taken from the IMF, Bangladesh will never accept any condition that will go against the interest of the country.

Responding to a question, Kamal said he has no idea about any such list of the countries, prepared by the IMF where Bangladesh was shown as economically vulnerable.

"Bangladesh never failed to service its foreign debts, including that of IMF. No multilateral lending agency ever had to write off Bangladesh's debts", he said.

He also dismissed the media report that IMF has a different calculation about Bangladesh's foreign exchange reserves. Bangladesh calculates its foreign exchange reserves at $42 billion while IMF sees it much lower. 

"We have been calculating our foreign exchange reserves as other countries do ", he said.

The finance minister also disagreed with the rate of inflation at 7.5 percent, released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). 

"I don't admit such a figure. Inflation is never calculated on a weekly or daily basis... no country calculates in such a way", he said.

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Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) / Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal

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