Dhaka March 4, 2026, 10:57 pm
Four in five workers in country’s readymade garment sector received their salary by mid-April
The government has allocated Tk 1 billion to provide subsidy to farmers for buying agricultural machinery in fiscal 2019-20 to reduce production costs and increase crop yield.
The central bank's policy support is helping banks manage their funds, despite higher withdrawal pressure on cash even as deposits shrink in the aftermath of coronavirus outbreak.
Some shops and businesses opened in rural India on Monday as part of a staggered exit from a weeks-long lockdown that has left millions out of work and short of food, while coronavirus infections rose by more than 1,500 over
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, or AIIB, has approved a $170 million loan to Bangladesh to accelerate the country’s efforts to deliver improved sanitation services to underserved communities.
Around 1.92 million Mobile Financial Service (MFS) accounts have been created
The government has requested the World Bank, or WB, to disburse US$250 million as budgetary support within this fiscal from the $750 million the global lender had pledged to offer as development support credit, an official sa
Export earnings were $3.34 billion in March last year
US small businesses may need up to $500 billion a month to ensure their survival through the coronavirus crisis,
China’s economy shrank for the first time since at least 1992 in the first quarter, as the coronavirus outbreak paralysed production and spending, raising pressure on authorities to do more to stop mounting job losses.
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) on Thursday claimed that about 87 per cent of its listed factory workers received March wages, the deadline for the same set by apparel makers and government.
After World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has also projected Bangladesh's low economic growth for this year as a result of the virus outbreak.
China's foreign trade dipped 6.4 per cent year-on-year to 6.57 trillion yuan ($933 billion)
There will be no dreadful situation where GDP growth will slump to 2-3% as projected by the World Bank.
The minister asks the SME Foundation to take appropriate initiatives so that SME entrepreneurs, in the present scenario, can sell their products through e-commerce Photo: UNB " style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer;">
Authorities concerned have been asked to make a list of them along with their bank account numbers. The money will be sent directly to their bank accounts
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday announced her government’s four strategic programmes which will be implemented in three phases until 2023-24 fiscal year to overcome the possible adverse impact on the national economy d
Bangladesh's economic growth will be between 2.0 and 3.0 per cent in the current fiscal in the aftermath of coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank has forecast.
Conditions include maintaining single borrower exposure limit, loan classification and provisioning rule, and highest loan limit for both banks and clients
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