Bangladesh must press ahead with structural reforms to sustain its economic recovery as negotiations begin on a new $4.5bn-5bn support programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dhaka Tribune reported. Following an initial round of discussions with the Finance Division, Bangladesh Bank, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) and Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, the IMF said recent improvements in key economic indicators were encouraging but cautioned that they reflected cyclical factors rather than lasting structural changes. [...]