White Paper Committee to look into previous calculations of GNI, inflation: Debapriya

White Paper Committee to look into previous calculations of GNI, inflation: Debapriya

Country eminent economist Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, also the head of the committee on drafting a white paper on the state of economy, today said they would investigate how the calculations on key macroeconomic indicators like GDP, gross national income (GNI) and inflation were done in the past.
“In the broad line, we have identified the estimations that had been done were based on very weak physical foundation,” he said while briefing reporters at the Nazia Salma Conference Room of the Planning Commission in the capital Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area today.
He mentioned that on many occasions the officials who had prepared the estimations often felt helpless under pressure from the previous government.
“They were compelled to give those estimations, they told us so,” he added.