The Foreign Ministry has issued policy guidelines for extending official development assistance to Bangladesh and Thailand, the first among nine initial country-by-country plans it has been preparing since November 1998.
The guidelines, issued Thursday, cover a period of about five years, focusing on human resources for Thailand to facilitate self-sustained economic and social development following the Asian financial crisis, and emphasizing the need to ease poverty and address huge debts in Bangladesh.
They will be revised whenever necessary, ministry officials said.