Expatriate Bangladeshis sent $8,825 million remittances in the first four months of the current fiscal 2020-21, which is 43.24 per cent higher than the amount of the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year.
The country received $6,161 million remittances during the July-October period in the 2019-20 fiscal year, reports BSS citing the finance ministry, reports BSS.
According to the data, the country received $2,112 million in October of fiscal 2020-21.
But in 2019-20, the country got $1,642 million in October.
As per the data, at the end of October 2020, the foreign exchange reserve stood at $41,005 million which was $32,438 million at the end of October 2019.
