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5. Bangladesh's performance in the OBS (contd.) Public participation scores (cross-country comparison) 17 11 80 31 28 ■■Bangladesh 23 25 23 22 22 India 19 19 15 17 15 13 13 11 13 11 Sri-Lanka Nigeria ■Uganda 2012 2015 2017 2019 For OBS 2019, the global average of public participation score was 14. Both Bangladesh and India scored lower than the global average Bangladesh scored the same for OBS 2017 and OBS 2019 improvement of the situation - indicating no MoF and NBR conduct pre-budget consultations during the budget formulation □ However, it still lacks mechanisms to actively include and engage civil society members, vulnerable and underrepresented communities who are willing to participate in the budget formulation process There is no documentation mechanism to understand if the perspectives emerging from these discussions are reflected or not Bhattacharya et al. (2022): Fiscal data in Bangladesh: Issues and Challenges 20

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