Growth cannot be declared or budgeted into existence; it must be earned through credibility, investment, productivity, and institutional change.

We should have focused on addressing the macro-fundamentals, which would create a launching pad for the coming year’s fiscal flow.

The government should prioritise job creation and inflation control in the budget for the next fiscal year in a bid to help the marginalised people survive amid higher prices of essentials, said the Citizen’s Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh, yesterday.