Media report says manipulated statistics that inflated Bangladesh's economic performance during the Sheikh Hasina era have not ended and similar practices continue under subsequent governments. The article describes suppression of nonperforming loan data, overstated export earnings, concealed GDP realities and repeated upward budget changes as routine during that period. An interim government formed a taskforce to reform the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and submitted recommendations, but those were not implemented; the current elected government also has taken no effective steps to carry out the reforms according to the report.

The report details the taskforce composition and aims: an eight-member expert group chaired by Hossain Zillur Rahman sought institutional changes to make BBS data more transparent and reliable, and members such as Dhaka University professor Moinul Islam said they submitted all necessary reform proposals. BBS officials quoted in the piece said ministerial approval is no longer required to publish some BBS data, but one director said he lacked detailed knowledge of the earlier taskforce. The article highlights specific data inconsistencies — population counts, GDP and per capita income, inflation figures, and export statistics — and cites international assessments questioning data adequacy and experts warning of planning and resource-allocation complications caused by unreliable statistics.