Investors do not feel confident because they are not sure if the policies taken by the interim government will be in place for long, said Debapriya Bhattacharya, head of the white paper panel on economy, yesterday.

The interim government has not taken any of the measures recommended by the white paper on the state of the Bangladesh economy even after a month and a half of the report’s submission, said economists yesterday.

Says, turned Bangladesh from crony capitalism to kleptocracy

The 12-member panel held its first meeting today, the next one on Sep 3

The panel gets 90 days to prepare and submit the paper

Arfanul Haque Rifat, the newly elected mayor of Cumilla City Corporation, has stated that he will publish a white paper on all corruption committed in the city during the last ten years.

Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA) has demanded the government to publish a white paper and keep a provision for forming a commission in regardto black money in the budget for fiscal year 2018-19.