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-- 2021-12-20 17:59:01
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said that he is hopeful that the country’s remittance will exceed $25 billion by the end of the current fiscal year (FY22), up from the current $21 billion...
-- 2021-12-20 17:43:12
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has expressed his high optimism of achieving targeted 7.2 per cent GDP growth in the current fiscal year (FY22) since the country is on the right path towards develo...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2021-12-20 09:38:58
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) suggests Bangladesh to phase out caps on the lending and borrowing rates to strengthen monetary transmission as lifeblood in the economic-recovery process. "Ca...
FE REPORT 2021-12-20 08:19:35
The central bank further relaxed the repayment policy for the borrowers of outstanding loans or leases from non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) to help the recovery of the pandemic-hit econom...
-- 2021-12-19 17:21:20
President of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) Mr Rizwan Rahman has said the tax difference between listed and non-listed companies should be rationalised to encourage good companies and...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-19 13:36:19
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has enhanced the economic growth projection for Bangladesh to 6.6 per cent for the current fiscal year (FY) from its October projection of 6.5 per cent. “G...
-- 2021-12-19 11:59:55
Bangladesh’s economy has rebounded from the Covid-19 pandemic ‘much quicker’ than other nations in the region due to the measures taken by the authorities, according to a staff team...
-- 2021-12-17 21:19:49
Bangladesh plans to send as many as 800,000 workers abroad in fiscal 2021-22, as Malaysia is set to reopen the labour market to workers from the South Asian country. In the first four months of the f...
Deutsche Welle 2021-12-17 19:09:12
[German state-owned international broadcaster Deutsche Welle published the following report on Thursday marking Bangladesh’s 50 years of a journey towards growth.] As Bangladesh marks the...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-16 22:45:19
The World Bank has announced a $93 billion replenishment package of the International Development Association (IDA) to help low-income countries respond to the COVID-19 crisis and build a greener, mor...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2021-12-16 08:39:15
Bangladesh's services sector has expanded by nearly 90 per cent over the past five years to Tk 18.98 trillion, a latest official count shows. The size of the services sector stretching over accommo...
-- 2021-12-15 22:01:06
The state of food security and nutrition in Asia and the Pacific has worsened, as more than 375 million people in the Asia-Pacific region faced hunger in 2020, an increase of 54 million over the previ...
-- 2021-12-15 20:44:02
Russia has expressed its readiness to offer cooperation with Bangladesh in various fields, including trade, economic, science, and technology. A team of Russia has expressed this at the 3rd session o...
-- 2021-12-15 10:34:10
The US House of Representatives passed legislation on Tuesday to ban imports from China's Xinjiang region over concerns about forced labour, part of Washington's continued pushback against Beijing's t...
-- 2021-12-14 18:28:09
A Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between Bangladesh and Nepal is in the final stage, said the Commerce Secretary of Bangladesh Tapan Kanti Ghosh. Being present as the chief guest, he made this re...
REZAUL KARIM 2021-12-14 09:24:03
Boosting agricultural production and productivity and farming high-value crops of export quality are seen as urgent to cushion possible external shocks to Bangladesh's export trade in the post-LDC-gra...
FE REPORT 2021-12-14 09:05:21
About 85 per cent of the employed people in the pre-Covid period remained unemployed for over a month for the pandemic and those reemployed now cannot make two ends meet, according to a study. The CP...
-- 2021-12-13 20:38:02
Afghanistan's national currency, the afghani, has dropped further recently amid economic woes, causing grave concern among the Afghan people. The afghani was traded at 112.60 for one US dollar on Mon...
FE REPORT 2021-12-13 08:35:31
Bangladesh economy faced further 'informalisation' with consequent lower wages and higher underemployment under a stumbling upset done by the pandemic, it was revealed Sunday at a conference on post-c...
FE REPORT 2021-12-12 09:25:43
Auditing firms should play a vital role for Bangladesh's smooth graduation to a developing country from the LDC and for achieving other development goals by discharging their duties with professiona...
SYFUL ISLAM 2021-12-12 08:42:19
Bangladesh ought to conduct comprehensive policy reforms for striking effective trade deals on preferential market access in the post-LDC era, a government body suggests as the country is poised for s...
FE REPORT 2021-12-11 08:27:57
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Friday urged the country's tax authority not to put too much pressure on the taxpayers who are already paying taxes. "Earn tax as much as you can from the existi...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2021-12-11 08:25:32
A major move is underway for segregating the country's nearly Tk500 billion worth of life fund in the insurance industry by framing a regulation, so as to secure policyholders' interests from alleged...
-- 2021-12-10 19:48:17
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Friday urged the revenue officials to behave nicely with the businesspeople to encourage them to pay VAT without being intimidated. "I tell those who collect VAT...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-10 13:11:55
The World Bank Vice President for South Asia, Hartwig Schafer, reaffirmed the bank’s commitment to Bangladesh’s resilient and inclusive recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. He made the re...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2021-12-10 08:38:48
The central bank continues to pump the US dollar into Bangladesh's overheating foreign-exchange market, releasing over $2.0 billion in nearly four months now, as the greenback enjoys great demand amid...
-- 2021-12-09 19:52:00
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has urged the country's business community to cooperate with the government for signing the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Malaysia. "The signing of the FTA with Malays...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2021-12-09 09:31:59
Country’s trade deficit widened nearly three times in the first four months of the current fiscal year (FY), prompting some economists to prescribe thrift on luxury buys. Officials attribute th...
FE REPORT 2021-12-08 08:55:09
Economists at an international meet Tuesday underscored conducting deep reforms to improve Bangladesh's institutional capacity to clear the decks for economic advances and exploring regional trade o...
FE Report 2021-12-08 08:52:02
Government's net borrowing from the state-sponsored savings instruments slumped in October from September tally due mainly to deep cuts in yield rates. This led the government to borrow higher amount...
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