Bangladesh

Speakers at an international webinar have stressed the need for diversifying the country's export basket and focusing on bilateral free trade agreements to address the challenges of the post-Covid global economic shock. Though Bangladesh has emerged as one of the top performers during the...

Leading steel, cement and paint companies related to the construction sector witnessed higher profits in the July-December period of the current financial year despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Although industry insiders fear that they will face 30 per cent lower profits from the July-December...

When coronavirus first made its way to Bangladesh, the government initially struggled to convince its mass population to maintain the health and safety rules needed to keep the rogue pathogen at bay.  But gradually, people came around and the government succeeded in bringing the...

On the 26th of March this year, Bangladesh will complete its 50th year of independence.  And if some of us are lucky, we might even have the fortune to see Bangladesh at 100. But, how will that future exactly look like? 

The moratorium facility on the repayment of loan instalments extended to help businesses and individuals tide over the economic fallout of the global coronavirus pandemic will not be extended any further, in yet another sign that the worse is behind. But borrowers of term...

Commerce Secretary Md Jafar Uddin said Bangladesh earned 20 billion dollars from exports as production continued even during the Covid-19 pandemic. "Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's prompt and courageous decision at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic made it possible," he said.

Bangladesh has beaten India on exports in the past decade, and the Economic Survey 2021 explains why. Bangladesh exports posted a compounded annual growth rate of 8.6% over 2011-2019 versus India's export growth of 0.9% and a world average of 0.4%, the survey said.

Bangladesh is preparing to take an alternative route to strengthen its trade ties with Russia, bypassing the US sanctions on the latter. As part of it, the Bangladesh Bank has taken an initiative to enter into a bilateral swap agreement with the Central Bank...

A United Nations report on Tuesday said that Bangladesh’s gross domestic product growth fell to 0.5 per cent in the calendar year 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Bangladesh saw its economic growth down to 0.5 per cent in 2020 from 8.4 per cent...

“Showcase Bangladesh 2021: China-Bangladesh Investment Summit, a virtual platform jointly organized by Standard Chartered and Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA), was held recently. The virtual event showcased the partnership potential between Bangladesh and China and highlight the emerging strategic opportunities in a shifting global...