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Remittance inflow has slightly increased ahead of the imminent Eid-ul-Fitr as expatriate workers are sending money to their families for Eid celebration.Market analysts said expatriate workers have continued to send money to their homes to ensure the smooth Eid celebration of their family members de...
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The government has conceptualized and is pushing seven mega projects to showcase its development record and to use it as a lever to prop up economic growth.Huge spending on seven mega projects is tantamount to a key focus area of the government as these mega ventures have been given the highest prio...
A huge foreign investment prospects are waiting for Bangladesh as relations between US and China deteriorated further over the ongoing Covid-19 crisis.Market analysts said the government needs to take effective steps to seize this opportunity for stimulating the country’s economy following the...
People’s movement in large numbers from the capital Dhaka to other metropolitan cities and districts town for their respective ancestral homes posed a serious threat to increase the risk of coronavirus infection.The government has already extended shutdown and imposed restriction curbing peopl...
The Coronavirus outbreak has destroyed the overseas labour market, triggering an economic crisis in the country.Experts said this deadly virus has already emerged as a global threat, which will have a huge impact on the country’s remittance inflow.They said the virus has spread to different co...
The export earnings from the jute and jute-made goods witnessed a healthy growth during the July-April period in current fiscal despite the ongoing worldwide shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.The earnings from this sector secured second place after the readymade garments (RMG) pushing down th...
The government has approved another special project of Tk 1,364 crore to combat the deadly virus Covid-19 which has already affected the world’s developed countries badly.The project will help strengthen Bangladesh's response to the Covid-19 outbreak by providing urgent assistance with hea...
Demand is getting stronger for reopening the capital marker before the imminent Eid-ul-Fitr as investors have been passing a critical time amid the ongoing shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic.Market analysts said the country's capital market has been volatile for most of the time in the curren...
The Bangladesh Bank’s decision not to disburse more than 30 percent dividends among shareholders will bring a catastrophe to the capital market, experts opined.In a statement on Monday, the central bank suspended the payment of cash dividends by the commercial banks until September 30 this yea...
The government is going to approve another special project to combat the deadly virus Covid-19 which already affected the world’s developed countries badly.The project titled ‘Covid-19 Emergency Response and Pandemic Preparedness’ involving Tk 1,300 crore will be approved soon by P...
Amid the mounting human toll and global economic fallout triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, timely completion of mega projects of Bangladesh will set the stage for stimulating the country’s economy.Keeping this in mind, the government has given more importance to completing these mega project...
The country’s export earnings have reduced by 82.85 percent to $520.01 million in April in current year over the same period of previous year.Experts said the export earnings witnessed a rapid fall due to closure of factories and disruption ofglobal supply chain due to the coronavirus pandemic...
Strengthening the social safety net has been given the highest priority in the draft budget for the fiscal 2020-21 to recover the country’s shaken economy due to the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic.The draft of the budget, which will be placed before the national parliament next month, has already...
Despite the countrywide general holiday and the transportation shutdown for more than one and a half months due to the coronavirus pandemic, the supply of food has remained uninterrupted as the government has taken various effective measures in this regard.Amid the fear of probable famine across the...
The foreign exchange reserves reached $33 billion at the end of April following lower import payment pressure due to the coronavirus pandemic.The country’s reserves again crossed the $33 billion-mark after almost 2 years, up about $1 billion over the corresponding time of previous year, accord...
RMG workers in large number from different parts of the country today continued returning to the capital Dhaka and its suburbs, signaling a danger mark to deepen novel coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis pandemic.“It would be a big blow for the nation,” an expert says.Since Wednesday noon thou...
The government measure for restarting economic activities amid the ongoing virus pandemic through reopening the export-oriented RMG factories may backfire if proper health protocol is not maintained in the factories and for the workers, experts said.Experts further opined that it was too early to ea...
Despite bumper production of fruits, the country’s Seasonal fruit growers fear incurring losses due to low prices of their produces due to coronavirus outbreak, experts said. The fruit growers like watermelon, lichi are facing serious difficulties in selling their products amid the on-going lo...
The country is witnessing an economic stalemate with industries being temporarily closed in the aftermath of global supply chain disruptions due to the coronavirus pandemic. The virus outbreak took a huge toll on all sectors including the trading of garments, leather and leather products, appa...
Despite the severe global economic disruption due to coronavirus outbreak, Bangladeshi expatriates continued to send remittances at home. The migrant workers have been sending money through different channels including banks, mobile banking and NGOs. Expatriates have sent $442 million in the first s...
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