After a downturn, inflation-fueling high-powered money has surged again, largely negating the effect of a contractionary policy pursued by the regulator to stem price rises. The money being injected into the market through some chann...
Bangladesh implemented just 48.23 percent of its Annual Development Programme (ADP) during the first 11 months of the outgoing fiscal year, marking the lowest execution rate in 16 years. Data released on Thursday by the planning ministry&r...
The government will begin lobbying foreign diplomats in Dhaka next month to build support for its request to defer Bangladesh's graduation from Least Developed Country (LDC) status by three years, as the issue moves towards consideration at...
Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury sets out a three-pronged economic-resilience strategy for protecting Bangladesh from global economic turbulence and the fallouts from continuing instability in the Middle East. While elab...
Bangladesh's gross foreign-exchange reserves crossed US$36-billion mark Wednesday with an aid dollop of nearly $320 million from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The country's gross forex reserves rose to $36.10 billion on th...
After a downturn, inflation-fueling high-powered money has surged again, largely negating the effect of a contractionary policy pursued by the regulator to stem price rises. The money being injected into the market through some chann...
Bangladesh Bank on Wednesday issued a strict directive to all scheduled commercial banks, warning them to immediately cease discouraging customers from investing in national savings certificates (Sanchayapatra). The central bank instructed...
Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury has unveiled a three-pronged economic resilience strategy aimed at shielding Bangladesh from global economic turbulence and the fallout of continuing instability in the Middle East, while broade...
Bangladesh and the United Kingdom (UK) have agreed to strengthen awareness and capacity-building efforts to help local exporters make greater use of the UK’s Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS), as the country prepares for its...
The government is planning to transform unviable state-owned sugar mills into industrial parks and gradually shift towards sugar beet-based production as part of efforts to make the sugar industry economically sustainable, Commerce, Industr...
