Dhaka, Nov. 15 -- Japanese financier JICA follows IMF footprint as it also now tags consultation with Bangladesh's upcoming political government to budget bankrolling as the national elections are in sight for transition from the interregnum.

Officials say the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has recently initiated talks with the government on providing budget-support credits in the ongoing fiscal year 2025-26.

In the last fiscal year, the Japanese funding agency had provided $418 million worth of budget-support credits for economic reforms and climate resilience.

A team of JICA officials, last week, had a meeting with Finance Division officials at Bangladesh Secretariat in the capital where they discussed the prerequisite...