A core part of our work is providing guidance for good economic governance. Governments must ensure their economic activities are transparent and be held accountable to the goals they set. Governments must implement policy that is comprehensive and inclusive to form feedback loops with other actors such as those in the private sector and civil society. These actors must actively be involved in the process of forming, modifying, and assessing policy. Good governance and comprehensive policy are fundamental to how countries can stimulate economic growth. IDG can provide advisory services to government officials at high levels including but not limited to Presidents and Prime Ministers and Ministries of Finance and Economy.
We build institutional capacity to improve their democratic systems so that their development decisions are aligned with international standards and increase transparency. We leverage the Indo-Pacific Transparency Initiative (IPTI) to achieve this.
This assessment found that a most of the US Bangladeshi diaspora have concerns and believe that a barrier to Bangladeshi development is government corruption, safety/security, red tape, high taxation levels, policy unpredictability and uncertainty. The assessment showed that improvements in economic governance could increase diaspora investment and involvement.
Recommendations for an effective trade negotiations strategy focused on the short, medium and long term, including strengthening the internal capacity for trade negotiation of public sector officials, the private sector and civil society.
EGDP initiated work with the USAID Macro-Economic Stabilization and Reform (MESR) project to jointly organize a roundtable discussion with GOE counterparts on the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development’s approach to, and responsibilities for, governance performance monitoring systems. EGDP conducted an analysis of the laws governing anti-corruption and a matrix reflecting the mandates of different entities within the GOE responsible for anti-corruption based on the review of all anti-corruption related laws.
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