Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government started a process to collect an additional $1,000 million as budgetary support to tackle future emergency situations and the economic crisis stemming from the Russia-Ukraine war.

The finance minister of Bangladesh is scheduled to place the national budget for 2022-23 fiscal year at parliament on June 9.

The current global political, economic and trade situations are not favourable for a developing country like Bangladesh.

During the two years of pandemic, almost everybody has been pushed towards economic crisis, many to extreme poverty.

Politics, economics, and sociological journal Sarbojonkotha proposes an alternative action plan to the government to manage the ongoing public health and economic crisis.