Sheikh Hasina’s leadership needed for prosperity: IMF Chief
UNB :
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva has lauded the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in turning Bangladesh into a role model of development.
“Bangladesh is a role model in the world (in terms of its overall development) which makes its economy stable even after the Coronavirus pandemic,” the IMF chief said on Saturday while paying a courtesy call on PM Hasina at the meeting room of The Ritz-Carlton hotel here.
Georgieva was leading an IMF delegation at the meeting, said Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen reporters at a briefing.
PM Hasina is now on an official visit to the US mainly to attend the celebration of Bangladesh’s 50 years of partnership with the World Bank scheduled for Monday.
Momen said the IMF chief highly praised the unprecedented advancement of Bangladesh in various sectors under the dynamic leadership of Hasina which has made country’s economy stable after the Covid-19 pandemic. The IMF chief said leadership like that of the Bangladesh prime minister is necessary to go ahead with prosperity confronting all hurdles, according to Momen.
She said Bangladesh has achieved the remarkable progress due to massive infrastructure development, widespread connectivity and maintenance of the law and order.
She also hailed Bangladesh’s success in maintaining macro-economic stability even during the pandemic.
Momen said the Bangladesh premier briefed the IMF chief of her government’s initiatives to maintain the pace of the overall development of her country.
She said Bangladesh took the US$4.7 billion loan from the IMF as a “breathing space”.
“The development of the country didn’t come overnight, it has rather been the result of longtime planning,” she said.
She said that she prepared the plan on how she wanted to develop Bangladesh while she was in jail (for about 11 months from July 16, 2007) and started working with the plan after assuming power for the second time in 2009.
Hasina also mentioned the numerous steps her government has taken to fight the adverse impact of the climate change and to ensure women empowerment.
