Bangladesh News Desk: Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) on Thursday asked the government to look for loan from global lending agencies that offer long-term and low-interest funding to keep th... Read more
Rajib Kanti Roy, Bangladesh: Women’s participation in economic activities in rural areas of Bangladesh has been increasing gradually though they remain unpaid or poorly paid and hardly recog... Read more
UNB: Bangladesh witnessed a record 9.5 percent inflation in August, the highest in 12 years, due to adverse effects of fuel price hike, said Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). However, d... Read more
।। Saleemul Huq ।। Bangladesh is set to graduate out of the Least Developed Country (LDC) category in the next few years, and then become a developed country by 2041 while achieving the Sust... Read more
Asif Showkat Kallol, Dhaka: The government is taking stock of its ongoing stimulus bundles offered to the export sectors in a bid to phase out such spurs as the country gets closer to econom... Read more
UNB: World Bank, in a study, has found three obstacles to Bangladesh’s economic reform. Without massive reforms, Bangladesh’s gross domestic product (GDP) could fall below 4 percent by 2035,... Read more
UNB: Bangladesh received inward remittance worth over USD $1008.67 million (1,000 million = 1 billion) in the first 15 days of September, amid forex crisis in the country. Bankers said remit... Read more
BSS: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) would provide $500 million to Bangladesh as budget support on soft conditions. ADB Country Director to Bangladesh Edimon Ginting said this to reporters... Read more
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said Bangladesh and Russia have agreed on a currency swap that will enable them to trade directly in the taka and the ruble. Dhaka is particularly inte... Read more
Diplomatic Correspondent: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $197 million loan to enhance ecological resilience and diversification of rural livelihoods in the Silk Road region... Read more
Bangladesh has received US dollar 203 crore 80 lakh in the month of August. The amount is Tk 19 thousand 361 crore (if per US dollar is Tk 95). The country received 12.6 percent more remitta... Read more
Share of non-concessional loans increase Rejaul Karim Byron: The World Bank Group is scaling up its lending to Bangladesh in non-concessional terms by as much as three times to prepare the c... Read more
Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority has recently teamed up with a state-owned Chinese company to set up Chinese Economic and Industrial Zone (CEIZ) at Chattogram’s Anwara upazila. Arou... Read more
UNB: Ambassador of Switzerland to Bangladesh Nathalie Chuard has said any estimate on deposits of Bangladeshi money in the Swiss banks is “purely speculative” and no conclusion can be drawn... Read more
BSS: Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves are in a stronger position than those in number of other developing countries as garments and foreign exchange remitted by Bangladeshi workers abr... Read more
Several Asian central banks must raise interest rates rapidly, because inflationary pressures are rising due to a global surge in food and fuel costs caused by the war in Ukraine, said a sen... Read more
Rejaul Karim Byron, Dhaka: Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has sent in a formal request to the IMF for a $4.5 billion loan, putting to bed the speculations on whether the country would be... Read more
UNB: Bangladesh received US $1642.75 million (1.64 billion) inward remittance till July 21, thanks to Eid-ul-Azha when Bangladeshi migrants sent more money to families to celebrate one of th... Read more
Bangladesh is out of the risk of default although Sri Lanka and many other countries bear the brunt of the debt crisis. Amid rising inflation, debt and cost of borrowing, more than 10 other... Read more
Bangladesh News Desk: Bangladesh’s export income is likely to be affected by the increasing dominance of the US dollar over the Euro, forcing the European buyers to devalue their order... Read more