The deadline was part of the conditions laid out by the structural reform programme set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a $4.7-billion loan.
The move aimed at enhancing the monitoring and policymaking capacity of the country’s central bank, according to IMF. A second IMF review mission is scheduled to arrive in April to assess the targets met, before approving the third tranche of the loan.
The central bank has already announced two monetary policies in this fiscal: once in July and once in January.
Finance ministry officials told a domestic newspaper that the GDP report will be published before the second review by the IMF, and expressed optimism that the delay will not hinder receiving the loan installment.
Bangladesh publishes a provisional GDP report near the end of the fiscal, while the final report is published three to four months after the fiscal ends.
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