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The planning ministry will sit in a meeting with eight donor countries and agencies Thursday in the capital to discuss Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP).
The World Bank (WB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the UK based DFID, the USAID and the UNDP, and Norway, Netherlands and Japan are likely to attend the meeting.
The meeting will be presided by the planning secretary. It has been arranging with a view to fixing the talking points on the main PRSP meeting, scheduled to be held in Dhaka on November 15-17.
The planning ministry will try to convince the donor countries and agencies to concentrate on the financial supports for implementing the PRSP rather than focusing on controversial issues like deaths in 'crossfire', minority repression and corruption.
The much talked-about PRSP, to be the future strategy paper on reducing poverty in accordance with the United Nations globalise millennium development goals (MDGs), was approved the last week.
The donor countries and agencies will take the cue from the PRSP for their future lending programmes in Bangladesh.
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