Development spending edges up to 5% in first quarter amid recovery from political unrestImplementation of Bangladesh’s Annual Development Programme (ADP) in the first quarter of the 2025–26 fiscal year has risen slightly compared with the same period last year, which was marked by political turmoil. In September alone, expenditure stood at 2.70 percent of the allocation, compared with 2.18 percent in the corresponding month a year earlier. Spending on development projects is usually lower at the beginning of a fiscal year and tends to accelerate as months progress. Officials said the anti-government movement in July last year slowed down implementation compared to usual. By the end of 2024–25, only 67.85 percent of the revised ADP allocation had been spent -- around 13 percentage points lower than the previous year’s 80.63 percent.

Source: bd News24 October 20, 2025 17:41 UTC