Dhaka July 28, 2025, 7:24 pm
The country's economic recovery is at a slow pace for several reasons, including stagnation in foreign trade due to recession in the world economy amid the pandemic
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said Bangladesh has started actively considering various farming options in Middle East (ME) and African countries utilizing different bilateral and multilateral channels, especially the pla
Country’s economy is now rebounding from the COVID-19 shocks due to the time-befitting steps of the government alongside implementation of the stimulus packages
Implementation of the government’s development budget hit the five-year low at 23.89 per cent in the first half of FY21 mainly due to gloomy local resources utilization amid the ongoing Covid-19 crisis
Healthy oceans are critical to life across Asia and the Pacific, providing food security and climate resilience for hundreds of millions of people
The Finance Ministry has been directed to expedite investigations of money laundering and terrorism financing cases. Besides, all concerned goverment bodies have been asked to meet the revenue collection target
Shoppers who will make the payments through the EFDs from January 1 to January 31, 2021 will be in the considered as recipient as median lottery incentive winners
The commission will fix the prices of all agriculture produces to maintain stability in the market
In its new Global Economic Outlook, the World Bank forecast 4% growth this year following a 4.3% decline in 2020, the biggest plunge in global output since a contraction of 9.8% in 1945 as nations demobilized at the end of Wo
The NBR has already given necessary instructions to its field level officials across the country to strictly follow its guidelines to step up the collection of revenue
JICA topped the list this year as Bangladesh for the first time secured US$ 331 million in budget support from the largest bilateral donor in August for tackling the COVID-19 in the economy
The minister trashed the WB forecast
In its Global Economic Prospects for January 2021, the World Bank said a rebound is likely to be muted unless policymakers act decisively to tame the pandemic and introduce investment-enhancing reforms
The inflation rate declined by 0.23 percent on a point-to-point basis in December 2020 as it came down at 5.29 percent last month from 5.52 percent in November 2020
Bangladesh Bank’s time-befitting policy has kept the economy stable and a sustainable exchange rate of taka against US dollar has benefited businesses and expatriates
government would spend around Taka 4,236.43 crore for procuring, transporting, distributing COVID-19 vaccines while the frontline workers including health workers, personnel of Law Enforcement Agencies, media personnel would
The current fiscal’s budget deficit has been projected at 6 percent of total economic output, which the government is trying to meet predominantly mobilising budget support from development partners
Bangladesh has experienced low debt to GDP ratio of around 34 percent of GDP since last few years
This represents the highest amount of tax the government has received since offering such an opportunity
Economists termed such initiative of the government as a time-befitting and smart one
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