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-- 2018-05-17 22:10:38
Japan’s export promotion agency JETRO presented a plan to arrange matching events between young Bangladeshi entrepreneurs with Japanese SMEs and investors to augment economic growth. Executive...
FE Online Report 2018-05-17 15:03:40
The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (MCCI) has stressed the need for increasing the level of investment in the country. “(An) All-out effort will be needed to mobilise inve...
-- 2018-05-17 15:02:23
New Zealand government is planning to spend billions of dollars to rebuild their rotting hospitals, schools and other infrastructure as the country’s economy continues to grow at a healthy clip....
-- 2018-05-17 14:19:10
Japan is considering slapping tariffs on US imports worth $409m in retaliation against steel and aluminium levies imposed by President Donald Trump, media reported on Thursday. Such a move would sig...
FE Report 2018-05-17 09:41:22
The central bank plans to develop uniformity of calculation in case of forward rates among the banks aiming to ensure discipline in the country's foreign exchange market. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) h...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-05-17 09:37:36
The four "fast-track" power and energy projects except one have failed to make any notable progress and these are still at the initial stage of implementation, insiders said Wednesday. The LNG (Lique...
FE Online Report 2018-05-16 18:27:58
The World Bank (WB) will provide $110 million for Bangladesh’s enterprise development in a bid to ensure green industrialisation. The Washington-based lender conformed the loan as it signed a d...
FE Report 2018-05-16 17:23:04
Banking experts at a workshop in the capital on Tuesday called for reining in the overwhelming sales of national savings certificates (NSCs) in the country. They also warned that the prevailing situa...
-- 2018-05-16 16:13:25
Japan's economy shrinks for first time in time in two years, as private consumption and capital expenditure slowed, government data has showed. The third largest economy of the world fell at an annua...
FE Online Desk 2018-05-16 14:30:37
The employment in the country is not increasing in line with the gross domestic product (GDP), speakers said claiming that such GDP without employment is not expected. There are different mega proj...
FE Report 2018-05-16 09:51:48
The country's current account deficit widened, reaching a record high in the first nine months of the current fiscal year (FY) as imports grew faster than exports. Central bank statistics, released o...
-- 2018-05-15 19:04:53
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has suggested that Bangladesh should improve its labour standard in line with ILO convention to avail GSP-plus facilities in the European Union (EU) market to face the...
Siddique Islam 2018-05-15 17:34:40
The Law Commission-Bangladesh has taken a move to establish commercial courts aiming to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) for resolving disputes on trade, commerce and banking promptly. This wa...
-- 2018-05-15 17:12:02
The World Bank will provide $110 million assistance for Bangladesh to implement the Sustainable Enterprise Project (SEP) which will help some 20,000 microenterprises adopt environmentally-friendly pra...
-- 2018-05-15 15:49:43
The economical growth of the Euro zone slowed in the first quarter of this year and industrial output in March was weaker than expected, data from the European Union’s statistics office Eurostat...
FE Report 2018-05-15 09:41:37
The national budget for the next fiscal year (FY) should have adequate measures to protect external account and reduce income inequality for the country's overall socioeconomic stability, economists,...
FE Online Report 2018-05-14 20:04:40
Foreign direct investment (FDI) will increase by seven to eight folds in the next couple of years as the decline in power and gas supply crisis will woo more investors. Planning Minister...
FE Report 2018-05-14 17:17:19
There is a need for bundling agricultural risk coverage with farm credit in a bid to scale up the weather index-based crop insurance in Bangladesh, ADB country director Manmohan Parkash said at an int...
-- 2018-05-14 14:14:54
Bank of France, the central bank of the seventh largest economic country of the world, on Monday estimated quarterly growth rate at 0.3 per cent during the second three months of the year. The growth...
Jasim Uddin Haroon and Jubair Hasan 2018-05-14 10:43:27
The concept of economic zone is now considered one of the best investment and employment generation models across the world in this age of globalisation, analysts said. Economic zone (EZ) is a cluste...
Siddique Islam 2018-05-14 09:57:48
The government's gross borrowing from the banking system jumped suddenly Sunday to finance budget deficit partly for the current fiscal year (FY), officials said. Bangladesh government borrowed Tk 13...
FE Report 2018-05-14 00:37:42
The country's age-old warehouses act has become totally outdated, and the government should move for its complete overhaul, according to a recent study, commissioned by the World Bank (WB) Group. T...
FE Report 2018-05-13 16:39:45
The government is going to review the existing yield rates on savings certificates after the next national budget, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Saturday. "Ideally, the yield rates on savings cert...
Jasim Uddin Haroon and Jubair Hasan 2018-05-13 10:04:31
Just 20 years back, land-starved Bangladesh was blessed with a considerable volume of land reclaimed from the Bay of Bengal at the Mirsarai point of Chattogram. And local people say the vast char lan...
FE Report 2018-05-13 09:59:37
LDC graduation might throw Bangladesh into 'double trouble' as the country's preparation for coping with the post-graduation challengers is not satisfactory, economists and businessmen have warned. T...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2018-05-12 16:54:40
The government is likely to prioritise issues relating to children in the upcoming budget to be placed on June 07 next as it believes investment in infants will have their lifelong impacts, said peopl...
-- 2018-05-12 14:41:12
Malaysian new government is likely to maintain real gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast range of 5.5 per cent to 6 per cent this year, analysts have said. The Affin Hwang Capital Research sa...
-- 2018-05-12 13:53:42
US President Donald Trump’s decision to re-impose economic sanctions on Iran may help boost India's exports of agri-commodities, mainly due to rupee-riyal payment mechanism, trade insiders said....
-- 2018-05-12 12:43:14
China will lift the retail prices of gasoline and diesel from Saturday, the sixth increase this year, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced on Friday. The NDRC said that as...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-05-12 09:43:24
The government has included a record number of 1,664 unapproved fresh projects in the Annual Development Programme (ADP) for the next fiscal year, mostly on political considerations, insiders said F...
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