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Md Nadim Ahmed's avatar

Do you think the budget problems will finally get the government to privatise some of the loss making state owned enterprises? Like the sugar and jute mills, the oil refinaries and fertiliser production plants. The government has finally legalised private companies to enter the oil refinary and internet submarine cable business. Do you think we'll see the deregulation and privatisation of electricity market markets we're seeing in the rest of Asia like Singapore, Japan and most recently Philippines?

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JRahman's avatar

Possible, but not very likely. Governments in their fourth term in office aren't usually reformists.

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Md Nadim Ahmed's avatar

My hope is that with the rise of solar panels you would get massive grid defection anyway which would motivate the government to privatise the utilities.

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