The World Bank in its latest forecast has predicted that the GDP growth rate in Bangladesh will come down to 1.6 percent in the current fiscal year. The Washington-based global lender in its... Read more
The coronavirus pandemic inflicted a “swift and massive shock” that has caused the broadest collapse of the global economy since 1870 despite unprecedented government support, th... Read more
The foreign currency reserve and inward remittances hit new highs in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. For the first time in country’s history the foreign currency reserve touched 34.23... Read more
Bangladesh has urged the United Kingdom (UK) to create a ‘global supply chain sustainability fund’ for post-Covid socio-economic recovery of countries including Bangladesh those have been vi... Read more
The general point to point inflation rate declined to 5.35 percentage point in May from 5.96 percentage point in the previous month mainly because of significant fall in prices of food commo... Read more
Expatriate Bangladeshis sent around US$ 1,503.40 million remittance during the month of May in the fiscal 2019-20, according to the latest data of Bangladesh Bank (BB). In May of this fiscal... Read more
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved 10 projects involving Taka 16,276.03 crore, including two projects related to emergency response and preparedn... Read more
The inflow of remittance in May rose by 38.34% from the previous month, as expatriate Bangladeshis sent $1.08 billion in remittance in April The country received $1.50 billion in remittance... Read more
The export earnings from jute and jute goods is also 17% higher than the target set by the government for the first ten months of outgoing fiscal year Bangladesh earned $791.3 million from t... Read more
Country’s prominent economists and experts have said that the next national budget should focus on ensuring survival of people through strengthening health, medical and social security secto... Read more
Country’s both the bourses -Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) plummeted today amid the fear of COVID-19 pandemic. Presence of investors at the brokerage houses w... Read more
