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Independent Review of RBD Bangladesh's Development Economic Growth The estimates of GDP has been under scrutiny for past several years due to its apparent disjuncture with several other key macroeconomic and development correlates. □ Indeed, more than half of the provisional GDP estimates are not based on credible real time data. ■At a turbulent time for economy, in view of the unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, lack of real time data weakens realistic estimates of GDP in a country. The provisional estimates of GDP in FY22 are likely to carried out with mostly data for the first six months and may have not captured the faltering macroeconomic developments in second half of FY22. For example, the exchange rate assumed for estimating per capita income (current USD) for FY22 is BDT 85.52 per USD. It is highly likely to depreciate when the final estimates will be prepared. CPD (2022): State of the Bangladesh Economy in FY2021-22 (Third Reading) 13
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