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-- 2022-04-12 20:42:56
The US inflation rate hit a fresh 40-year high in the year to March after fuel prices soared during the first full month of the Ukraine war. Consumer prices increased by 8.5 per cent, the largest rat...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-12 19:53:13
Over a quarter of a billion more people could crash into extreme levels of poverty in 2022 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, rising global inequality and the shock of food price rises supercharged by...
-- 2022-04-12 19:30:03
The government plans to have a new pot of money to pass out to farmers in the haor region after recent flash floods destroyed their crops. Floods in early April damaged paddy on around 6,500 hectares...
-- 2022-04-12 18:56:18
A 15,000 square feet hi-tech park is going to be established in Keraniganj, southern suburb of Dhaka city. State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid laid the foundatio...
-- 2022-04-12 18:24:26
The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Tuesday revised down its forecast for global trade growth this year to 3.0 per cent from 4.7 per cent due to the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war and warned of a...
-- 2022-04-12 18:17:20
Bangladesh’s economy is relatively stable in almost all the indicators and its amount of foreign debt is still far below the risk limit. This observation came when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...
-- 2022-04-12 17:41:33
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has urged the government to prepare a realistic budget with a clear implementation pathway for the upcoming fiscal year 2022-23. The CPD, a think tank and r...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2022-04-12 08:58:36
Sri Lanka's economic woes standing as a global concern, Bangladesh government's high-ups are sitting today for a stocktaking of its own macroeconomic scenario and foreign-debt position, officials said...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2022-04-12 08:36:10
Depositing minimum 25-percent cash margin on letter of credit (LC) for all imports, bar some essentials, is now mandatory under a monetary measure meant for easing import-payment pressure on the econo...
-- 2022-04-11 21:41:14
Bangladesh receives 2nd highest remittance from US in March Bangladesh received the second-highest remittance from the United States in March, which showed a change in inward remittance flow.&n...
-- 2022-04-11 19:15:31
A new project has been undertaken to empower out-of-school adolescent girls and young women with market-driven occupational skills, transferable skills and job placements with support from the South K...
-- 2022-04-11 16:16:27
Ukraine's economic output will likely contract by a staggering 45.1 per cent this year as Russia's invasion has shuttered businesses, slashed exports and rendered economic activity impossible in large...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-11 12:15:44
The government has given the final licence to Cumilla Economic Zone (CEZ). The Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA), a centralised economic zones authority of Bangladesh, handed over the lice...
-- 2022-04-11 11:01:44
When former justice minister Ali Sabry visited Sri Lanka's president last Monday, it was for talks amid an economic crisis that has brought thousands of protesters on to the street and left the island...
-- 2022-04-10 20:30:32
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the 'Future Nation' programme to create econo...
-- 2022-04-10 20:03:48
The Duty Exemption and Drawback Office (DEDO) under the National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to introduce the online refund app Dedopay to speedily resolve the refund claims of the taxpayers onl...
-- 2022-04-10 18:09:20
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) may miss the fiscal revenue collection target as about half of the revenue collection is yet to be done with only four months left of the current financial year. L...
FE REPORT 2022-04-10 08:38:33
Renowned economist Prof Rehman Sobhan says politics and administrative quality ought to pair up for proper implementation of the policies while few other veterans stressed practicable planning. Shari...
-- 2022-04-09 12:12:27
Sri Lanka's central bank doubled its key interest rates on Friday, raising each by an unprecedented 700 basis points to tame inflation that has soared due to crippling shortages of basic goods driven...
SAIF UDDIN 2022-04-09 10:08:13
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) looks to deliver high-value services as it has recently assumed the regional directorship of WAIPA, a UN-affiliated global platform to promote in...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2022-04-09 08:35:47
Bangladesh is likely to seek US$500 million more in budgetary support from the World Bank at the upcoming IMF-WB spring meeting in Washington, as the government eyes yet a bigger budget. Besides, an...
-- 2022-04-08 17:44:10
Japan, the world's third-largest coal importer, said on Friday it will ban coal imports from Russia and impose a wide range of additional sanctions, including freezing the assets of two major banks an...
-- 2022-04-08 16:38:27
World food prices jumped nearly 13 per cent in March to a new record high as the war in Ukraine caused turmoil in markets for staple grains and edible oils, the UN food agency said on Friday. The Foo...
-- 2022-04-08 13:17:55
The Reserve Bank of India kept its key lending rate at a record low on Friday, as expected, as it sought to support economic growth even as inflation edged higher in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2022-04-08 09:01:59
Bangladesh's overall trade deficit climbed over US$22-billion mark in the first eight months of the current fiscal year mainly for higher import-payment pressure on the economy, officials say. Besi...
FE REPORT 2022-04-08 08:46:20
The government ought to adopt a balanced instead of expansionary approach in preparing the upcoming budget, as fiscal space keeps narrowing, economists and experts said Thursday. According to them, t...
-- 2022-04-07 20:38:00
Bangladesh has resumed exports of vegetables to the United Kingdom after scanner trouble halted the shipment of farm products for nearly a month. Frustrated businesses, however, say they have already...
-- 2022-04-07 20:34:10
Ms. Goodwood (Dhaka) Company Limited, a Canada-China-owned company, will invest 5.74 million US dollars to set up a diversified product manufacturing industry in BEPZA Economic Zone. The Bangladesh...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-07 18:11:29
Mobile money adoption and use saw continued growth in 2021, processing a record $1.0 trillion, according to a report. says a report. As per the report titled ‘State of the Industry Report on Mo...
-- 2022-04-07 11:29:31
Tourism spending in China plunged over this week's Qingming festival, as the world's second-largest economy battles a rise in infections. The amount tourists spent during the key thre...
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