Bangladesh, Nov. 10 -- Bangladesh will have to address a few core policy challenges to achieve the upper-middle income country status by 2031, economists said.

The challenges include ensuring equitable tax system, capital market vibrancy, and export diversification.

Currently, the country remains mostly concentrated on the readymade garment exports, which are likely to come under threat after its graduation.

The views came in the fourth conference of the Bangladesh Economists' Forum themed 'Strategies and polices for an upper-middle income Bangladesh,' held at a city hotel on Saturday.

In the first session on 'Macroeconomic strategies and policies," planning minister MA Mannan was the chief guest while former finance adviser to the care...