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Reuters 2020-11-05 14:39:57
The Bank of England (BoE) increased its already huge bond-buying stimulus by a bigger-than-expected 150 billion pounds ($195 billion) as it sought to cushion Britain’s struggling economy against...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2020-11-05 11:27:19
Bangladesh is mulling the introduction of its own index to assess the country's business environment as the World Bank (WB) has halted the publication of its flagship report 'Ease of Doing Business'....
-- 2020-11-05 10:20:52
Bangladesh’s point-to-point general inflation rate has increased to 6.44 per cent in October, the highest in seven years, amid the coronavirus (COvid-19) pandemic. The country had the previous...
FE REPORT 2020-11-05 09:47:23
Policymakers should focus more on newly-vulnerable population alongside the pre-existing marginalised groups while framing strategies for the pandemic recovery, experts have said. They also said many...
Muhammad Shahadat Hossain Siddiquee 2020-11-04 21:27:15
Financial inclusion is the degree and ease of access to financial services by individuals and firms within an economy. Ease of access to financial resources can act as a major tool for promoting econo...
Narayan Das and Md Shakil Ahmed 2020-11-04 20:49:39
Migration plays a vital role in reducing unemployment and poverty in Bangladesh. The remittances sent by the migrants have been growing over time, mainly because of the increasing number of migrants....
-- 2020-11-04 18:11:11
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has hoped that the country’s foreign currency reserves will reach $50 billion by December 2021. “Hopefully our foreign currency reserves will reac...
-- 2020-11-04 15:04:26
The Philippines' total external trade in goods declined 9.2 per cent in September from a year earlier to 14.14 billion US dollars, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has said. This was lower t...
Reuters 2020-11-04 11:03:35
Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday suspended several recently created and mostly right-leaning news accounts posting information about voting in the hotly contested US election for violating th...
FE REPORT 2020-11-04 09:43:15
Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) has sought rationalisation of the interest rate on loans it took out from a state-owned non-banking financial institution between 2015 and 2018. In a letter...
-- 2020-11-03 21:09:32
Bangladesh Bank on Tuesday published 'Manual of Credit Guarantee Scheme' for the banks to follow in facilitating loans for cottage, micro and small enterprises (CMS) under the government-announced eco...
Khondaker Golam Moazzem, Tamim Ahmed, ASM Shamim Alam Shibly and Taslima Taznur 2020-11-03 21:03:43
A policy brief titled 'The Crisis in the World of Work in View of Covid-19' was published in July 2020 by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) comm...
-- 2020-11-03 14:10:47
Vietnam's total textile and garment export value in the first 10 months of this year declined 9.3 per cent year on year to nearly 24.8 billion US dollars, according to the General Statistics Office on...
-- 2020-11-02 13:34:07
Cambodia exported 536,305 metric tons of milled rice in the first 10 months of 2020, up 17 per cent over the same period last year, Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon said on Monday. China remained the...
Monira Munni 2020-11-02 10:09:45
Brands and retailers must improve their purchasing practices in meeting the post-Covid demand and protecting supply chain workers during the pandemic recovery, according to a global report. The repor...
FE REPORT 2020-11-02 09:42:38
The resumption of economic activities reduced the number of the crisis-caused "new poor" by only 1.1 percentage points to 21.7 per cent, according to a study. In the April study, the percentage of em...
-- 2020-11-01 21:38:02
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 previo...
Minhaj Mahmud 2020-11-01 21:30:14
The main purpose of this article is to discuss how research findings can inform policies/strategies for Covid-19 containment in the context of a developing country like Bangladesh. Primarily, insights...
-- 2020-11-01 16:56:38
The United States has said it wants to help Bangladesh to diversify its private sector to move some of it away from the ready-made garment (RMG) industry into other high-value areas including the digi...
FE REPORT 2020-11-01 09:57:11
Speakers during a webinar on Saturday said local government institutions receive only around 1.0 per cent of the total fiscal budget. They highly depend on grants and central government transfers, al...
FE Report 2020-11-01 09:48:48
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has called upon the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector lending window of the World Bank Group, to reduce the rate of interest on its loan to...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2020-11-01 09:36:08
The public expenditure increased in the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY2020-21) but at its slowest pace in many years. Officials blamed the Covid-19 pandemic for the decline in the...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2020-11-01 09:30:26
The interest rate spread in the country's banking system increased further in September 2020 as banks slashed rates on deposits more than those of lending. The weighted average spread between lending...
UNB 2020-10-31 19:46:19
The government is preparing to bring black money back to the country. News agency UNB has learnt that the government is planning to ink taxation agreements with as many as 12 countries for allo...
KHAWAZA MAIN UDDIN 2020-10-31 15:21:52
Bangladesh has exceptionally denied the worldwide declining trend of remittance inflows in a pandemic-hit year, as, a World Bank projection says, the country may receive US$20 billion, or 8.0 per cent...
-- 2020-10-31 09:50:25
Facebook Inc confirmed on Friday it was temporarily halting recommendations for all political groups and any new groups in the run-up to Tuesday’s US presidential election. Facebook’s Chi...
blogs.imf.org 2020-10-30 21:15:03
Emerging markets and developing economies grew consistently in the two decades before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, allowing for much-needed gains in poverty reduction and life expectancy. The crisis now...
-- 2020-10-30 20:03:07
The United States has supported nearly one million American jobs and assisted over 12,000 US companies active in Indo pacific region that includes Bangladesh since July 2018. The information was reve...
The Policy Times 2020-10-30 18:23:32
China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CMC) has partnered with North West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) of Bangladesh to invest, construct and operate Payra 2×660 MW...
FE Online Report 2020-10-30 16:45:16
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) will work with its partners to help recapitalise viable businesses aiming at a resilient recovery, the lending agency iterated on Friday. The IFC’s p...
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