UNB, Dhaka: The government is aiming to take up the economy’s revenue-GDP ratio to 11.5 per cent by 2023-24 fiscal trough modernisation of revenue administration, broadening the tax base, hi... Read more
BSS: The International Monetary Fund has projected a 6.5 per cent growth rate for Bangladesh for the year 2022. The IMF made the projection in its latest the World Economic Outlook of the IM... Read more
BSS/AFP, Stockholm: Canadian David Card, Israeli-American Joshua Angrist and Dutch-American Guido Imbens on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for insights into the labour market and... Read more
BSS, Dhaka: Leading economists of Standard Chartered have observed that growth will be sustained over 7 percent in FY22-26 and this should drive Bangladesh’s GDP up to US$ 500 billion... Read more
BSS, Dhaka: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday approved a $250 million policy-based loan to support Bangladesh’s economic recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the... Read more
UNB: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has revised Bangladesh’s growth forecast for the current fiscal amid fears of a third wave of the Covid pandemic. In its latest report, the region... Read more
AFP: With the Taliban in control and foreign aid blocked, Afghanistan’s economy is likely to contract sharply as it faces a shortage of cash, the nation’s former central bank chi... Read more
Meraj Mavis: Remittance continued to dip for the third consecutive month in August, with seemingly no respite in the coming days. Remittance inflow declined 8% year-on-year in August to $1.8... Read more
BSS, Dhaka: Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun today said the government has been providing necessary supports for development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as it is the... Read more
UNB, Dhaka: The economic relations between Bangladesh and France were affected in 2020 by the Covid-19 pandemic. Last year, the bilateral trade between the two countries came down to EUR 2.7... Read more
BSS, Dhaka: Expatriate Bangladeshis sent US$22.75 billion in remittance during the first 11 months of the current fiscal 2020- 21, which is apparently 40.10 per cent higher than the same per... Read more
UNB/AP, New Delhi: India’s economy, pummeled by the coronavirus pandemic, contracted by 7.3% in the 2020-21 financial year, just before the country was hit by another catastrophic surge in i... Read more
UNB, Dhaka: The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to procure 13 full-fledged container scanner systems for introducing a non-intrusive inspection system that will expedite the release... Read more
BSS, Dhaka: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved a Taka 3,076.22 crore project to enhance the capacity and ensure modernization of distribution net... Read more
UNB, Dhaka: World Bank on Wednesday forecast that Bangladesh’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will increase by 3.6% in 2020-2021 fiscal year, due to better than expected remittance inflows. Th... Read more
The government plans to focus on nine areas of emphasis, including successful implementation of the COVID-19 stimulus packages announced by the prime minister, and ensuring additional alloca... Read more
Expatriate Bangladeshis sent $12,944.74 million remittances in the six months of the current fiscal 2020-21, which is around 37.60 percent higher than the amount of corresponding period of t... Read more
Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Md Tajul Islam today said about 30 lakh job opportunities will be created at Mirsarai Economic Zone. The minister said this whil... Read more
Bangladesh embraces the New Year visibly with a sense of contentment as macroeconomic indicators suggesting the country’s higher resilience than its neighbours in facing the COVID-19 pandemi... Read more
Saddam Hossain, Dhaka: Bangladesh receives USD 2.07 billion in remittances from its expatriates in November. The amount soared by 33 per cent in November compared to the same month of the pr... Read more
