Bangladesh

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Bangladesh has urged US investors to set up Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing plants in Bangladesh to ensure its availability at lower cost for people of the country. An inter-session meeting of Bangladesh and USA in the Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (TICFA) was held...

Prime Minister's Private Industry and Investment Adviser Salman Fazlur Rahman on Saturday said the government is working on policy reforms, aiming to attract more foreign direct investment (FDI). "Almost at all top levels of the government, there has been a realisation that we need to change the...

Except for remittance all indicators through February 2020 suggested a growth slowdown in Bangladesh.  Investments were declining as indicated by falling import of capital machinery, FDI and private credit growth; private consumption was weak as indicated by falling sales of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and collection...

State Minister for Industries Kamal Ahmed Majumder today said that steps would be taken to keep same the value added tax (VAT) system at the import and production levels of the products of light engineering industries. Like the readymade garment (RMG) sector, providing all kinds of necessary...

Most of the large taxpayers are apprehending a sharp slide or poor growth in their sale and probable payment of consumption tax in the current fiscal year (FY), 2020-21. They have apprised the Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU) under the National Board of Revenue's (NBR) VAT Wing of...

The government received a record 1.98 billion US dollar in loans from donor countries and agencies in June amid the coronavirus (COvid-19) pandemic. The previous highest total foreign loans in a month for Bangladesh was $1.43 billion in June 2018, reports bdnews24.com. In the fiscal year that...

Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has exhorted both public and private banks to use digital financial inclusion to take services to customers' doorsteps through an easy and safer mode. "I'm hopeful that like Agrani Bank, other banks will also come forward to offer digital financial services." Mr...

Country’s combined nominal wage rate of agriculture, industry and services in the last fiscal year (FY20) increased by the slowest pace in the last five years. Wage Rate Index (WRI), released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), showed that the index increased by 6.35 per cent...

দেশব্যাপী পরিচালিত সামাজিক নিরাপত্তা কর্মসূচির ভাতা, সম্মানী, উপবৃত্তি ইত্যাদি নগদ অর্থ ব্যাঙ্ক অথবা মোবাইল ব্যাংক অ্যাকাউন্ট হতে উত্তোলনে একটি অভিন্ন ক্যাশ আউট চার্জ নির্ধারণ করতে যাচ্ছে সরকার। বর্তমানে মোবাইল ব্যাংকিং কার্যক্রমের মাধ্যমে এই সব কর্মসূচিতে টাকা পাঠাতে হলে প্রতি ১০০ টাকায় ক্যাশ আউট চার্জ কর্মসূচি ভেদে ৬০...