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PPP needed for sustainable economic recovery of Bangladesh: DCCI

02 Jan '23
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Foreseeing a need for public-private partnerships (PPP) for sustainable economic recovery, the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) recently urged the government to focus on uninterrupted and affordable energy supply to manufacturing industries, improve the ease of doing business, develop enough infrastructure to attract domestic and foreign investment and diversify exports.

It also called for easier access to credit facilities for cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises (CMSMEs).

Long-term planning should be adopted following a predictable pricing policy in determining the energy price, DCCI feels. 

It is necessary to urgently explore new gas fields, strengthen long-term energy supply contracts and find alternative sources of energy import to ensure energy security, the industry chamber was quoted as saying by a Bangladeshi news agency.

More emphasis is also needed on raising incentives to increase remittance inflow to enhance the foreign exchange reserve. Meanwhile, currency swap may be prioritised to meet necessary import expenditures, the chamber said.

To address the liquidity crisis in the financial sector, the government should continue with its austerity measures, it said.

To raise domestic and foreign investment, reforms of laws like the Companies Act, the Arbitration Act and and Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act are needed, it added.

ALCHEMPro News Desk (DS)

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