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Bangladesh’s National Economic Council Cuts Health and Education Budgets

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New Delhi/ Dhaka, Jan 29 (IANS) Bangladesh’s National Economic Council (NEC) has significantly downsized the health and education sector in the Annual Development Programme (ADP), according to a media report.In the tradition of reviewing the performance of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) at the mid-point of each fiscal year, the NEC downsized the ADP by about 12.5 per cent, to 208,935 crore taka (3.3 per cent of GDP) from its original budget allocation of 230,000 crore taka (3.7 per cen…