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-- 2022-01-09 20:06:57
The International Development Association (IDA), a concern of the World Bank, will extend USD $295 million Scale Up Facility (SUF) loan to Bangladesh for enhancing digital government & economy (ED...
-- 2022-01-09 17:01:19
Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Md Tajul Islam has expressed hope that the country’s average per capita income would exceed USD 3,000 by this year. The minister said, &ld...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-09 15:42:13
The country’s bilateral trade in goods with the rest of the world crossed US$110 billion in the last calendar year, showed the FE estimation based on statistics of exports receipts and imports p...
FE REPORT 2022-01-09 10:13:12
A virtual desk at the Bangladesh Embassy in the Netherlands was launched on Saturday to connect investors and partners, explore business and help attract foreign direct investment (FDI) in Bangladesh'...
SYFUL ISLAM 2022-01-08 09:17:13
Bangladesh has begun talks with the World Bank for budget support towards fighting climate impacts and forwarding various green-growth initiatives in a development-paradigm change, sources say. Last...
-- 2022-01-07 18:41:34
The general rate of inflation surpassed 6 per cent in December, the highest level in 2021, propelled by the spiralling prices of food and consumer goods in the country. The point-to-point inflation r...
-- 2022-01-06 18:42:13
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has extended policy support to June 30 next from December 31, 2021, for external trade transactions considering the pandemic effect on economic activities. A central bank circula...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2022-01-06 09:03:55
Swelling import expenses, coupled with routine payment to the Asian Clearing Union (ACU), have put the country's foreign-exchange (forex) reserves under pressure again, officials said. The reserve...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-05 19:06:04
A total of 203 Bangladesh expatriate workers have traveled to Korea since the lifting of suspension on the arrival of foreign workers in December. On Wednesday, 92 Bangladesh workers left for Korea f...
-- 2022-01-03 19:39:40
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has created a Tk 5.0 billion refinance scheme to generate employment and to eliminate poverty for the expatriates who have returned home due to Covid 19 pandemic and other reasons...
-- 2022-01-03 18:37:58
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has sought GSP support from Germany for Bangladesh to face the post-LDC challenges after its final graduation as a developing nation. He also urged the European country...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2022-01-03 08:38:06
Bangladesh saw its trade deficit more than double in the first five months of the current fiscal year as higher import-payment pressure on the economy causes account imbalance, officials say. The def...
FE REPORT 2022-01-03 08:19:51
Remittance from migrant Bangladeshi workers dipped over 12 per cent in the past calendar year from an unusual pandemic-time pickup in 2020, for reasons that include their higher expenditure. The lure...
-- 2022-01-02 21:14:42
Bangladesh sent 6,17,209 workers overseas and received a record $22,070.87 million ($22.07 billion) in remittance in 2021 amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Describing the trend of overseas employment as sa...
-- 2022-01-02 21:06:03
Bangladesh has broken the monthly exports record once again, shipping goods worth over $4.9 billion in December as the country’s economic recovery continued to gather pace after a pandemic-induc...
-- 2022-01-02 18:22:52
As per the government’s directive, banks have deducted excise duty from customers’ accounts whose minimum balance reached Tk 0.10 million within 2021. If the balance of customers’ b...
FE REPORT 2022-01-02 08:21:38
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal says there is no country in the world that can compete with Bangladesh. "None can compete with us. Our capacity, skills, productivity have been enhanced a lot," h...
-- 2022-01-01 17:57:14
The allocation for the agriculture sector in the upcoming budget is likely to see a significant rise as the government has taken various initiatives for this vital sector to ensure food security, boos...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-01 13:20:42
Amid the dwindling remittance inflow situation the government has enhanced the rate of incentives for remittance senders to 2.5 per cent from 2.0 per cent. The new rate is effective from Saturday, a...
FE REPORT 2022-01-01 09:50:52
Anwar-ul-Alam Chowdhury (Pervez), president at the Bangladesh Chamber of Industries (BCI) said that there are many challenges looming in the industrial sector in 2022 as the cost of doing business is...
FE REPORT 2022-01-01 09:00:48
Raising hopes for the economy in 2022, Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industries (DCCI) president Rizwan Rahman says Bangladesh survived in 2020, revived in 2021 and now is the time to thrive. "The re...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2022-01-01 00:33:18
Bangladesh joins humanity to welcome 2022 with mixed feelings of hope and despair as lingering shadows of coronavirus impact long-term rosy macroeconomic and socioeconomic indicators despite a rebound...
FE REPORT 2021-12-31 09:12:33
Speakers at a discussion on Thursday suggested Bangladesh's transforming into a 'skill- and productivity-based' economy instead of the current 'market access-based' one for competing in the global are...
FE REPORT 2021-12-31 09:04:51
Bangladesh's overseas employment is expected to increase 1.5 times in the outgoing calendar year (2021), said a RMMRU report on Thursday. It forecasts that the remittance income would climb by an e...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2021-12-31 08:31:07
The central bank relaxes further the loan-repayment policy for all the sectors to expedite Bangladesh's economic recovery from the fallout of Covid-19 pandemic. Under the relaxed stance, the borrow...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-30 19:49:11
Bilateral trade volume between Bangladesh and South Korea is expected to reach a record high this year, revealed statistics provided by the Korea Trade Association. Between January and November...
-- 2021-12-30 11:08:08
Global Covid-19 infections hit a record high over the past seven-day period, Reuters data showed on Wednesday, as the Omicron variant raced out of control and governments tried to contain its spread w...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2021-12-30 08:37:36
A GDP blowup with many leftover economic activities now taken into basket downsizes the ratio of Bangladesh's tax receipts to the gross domestic product, making it region's lowest and hence warranting...
FE REPORT 2021-12-30 08:22:46
Prime Minister's Economic Affairs Adviser Dr Mashiur Rahman has stressed reining in default loans which he felt have gone out of control at present. He has suggested strengthening the capacity of t...
-- 2021-12-29 09:17:41
Government agencies couldn't speed up development-budget implementation to anywhere near pre-covid levels, officials said Tuesday, and two of them moved at the slowest pace. They said the Shipping Mi...
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