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Bangladesh: TIB replies to Japan envoy’s criticism
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DHAKA, 08 July 2022, (TON): Transparency International Bangladesh executive director Iftekharuzzaman has appreciated Japanese ambassador Ito Naoki’s expectations of evidence based arguments and said “there was no scope of treating any aspect of this research unfounded.”
The TIB executive director said “we want to assure him (Naoki) that globally accepted methodologies including data collection and validation procedures, and other standards of social science research were strictly followed while conducting the study.”
The Japanese envoy made some comments on TIB’s recent research report titled ‘Coal and LNG-based Power Projects in Bangladesh “Governance Challenges and the Way Ahead’ while speaking at the second Integrated Energy and Power Master Plan preparation stakeholder meeting, as reported by the media on July 3.”
The ambassador called upon Transparency International Bangladesh to ‘present evidence-based arguments’.
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