, Feb. 19 -- Citizen's platform on Thursday urged the new government to immediately prepare a realistic revised budget for the current fiscal year and enforce a hard budget constraint to stabilise the economy amid mounting macroeconomic pressures.

The recommendations came at a briefing held at BRAC Centre in Mohakhali, where Citizen's Platform presented its 'Macroeconomic Benchmark for the New Government'.

The presentation was made by Towfiqul Islam Khan, Additional Director (Research) at CPD.

Highlighting what it termed three binding constraints-fragile macroeconomic stability, weakened private investment and employment, and diminishing fiscal space-the platform stressed that there should be 'no compromise' in formulating a realistic ...