চলতি অর্থবছরের দ্বিতীয় মাস থেকে প্রবৃদ্ধির যে নেতিবাচক ধারা চালু হয়েছিল, আট মাস শেষেও তা কাটিয়ে ওঠা যায়নি।
অর্থবছরের জুলাই থেকে ফেব্রুয়ারি আট মাসে বিশ্ববাজারে ২ হাজার ৬২৪ কোটি ১৮ লাখ ৩০ হাজার ডলারের পণ্য রফতানি করেছে বাংলাদেশ।
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বাংলাদেশের অর্থনীতি এখন ভালো চললেও সামনের দিনে স্বল্প ও দীর্ঘমেয়াদি বেশ চ্যালেঞ্জ রয়েছে। এর মধ্যে নভেল করোনাভাইরাসের কারণে দেশের অর্থনীতিতে বিষণ্নতা তৈরি করতে পারে। সেক্ষেত্রে সরকারের কর ও রাজস্ব আহরণ ব্যাহত হতে পারে। দ্য ডেইলি অবজারভার ও ডিবিসি নিউজের আয়োজনে ‘বাংলাদেশের অর্থনীতি কেমন চলছে’ শীর্ষক গোলটেবিল বৈঠকে...
The government has advised the local active pharmaceutical (API) manufacturers not to export the essential products until import of the basic raw materials for medicines resumed fully from the coronavirus-hit China and India. The Directorate General of Drug Administration has selected a total of 120 essential raw...
A number of large business groups have come across a new-found opportunity in rooftop solar power projects amid the rising prices of fossil fuel and power tariff. They are increasingly investing in such roof-top projects for running their industrial units. The state-owned Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL)...
Speakers at a programme on Saturday said lenders and digital financial technology service providers need to team up to help slash borrowing costs for smaller firms. They said cottage, small, and medium enterprises have enormous potentials in the country and banks can tap those potentials by lending...
Bangladesh's gross domestic product may contract by as much as 1.1 per cent in the hypothetical worst-case scenario of a significant outbreak of coronavirus in the country, said the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in an analysis. That means, the novel virus, which is yet to arrive in...
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh made Tk 173.7 crore in profits in 2019, a 56-per cent jump compared with the previous year’s earnings, mainly due to the reduction in financial costs after the merger. Lafarge Surma Cement Limited and Holcim Cement (Bangladesh) Limited completed their Tk 504.78 crore merger in...
There is nothing to be worried about preferential treatment of Bangladesh in the European Union even after the country's graduation from LDC (least developed country) status in 2024, a German diplomat said in Dhaka on Wednesday. "The EU has offered to extend preferential market access for an...
The volume of lending by banks and financial institutions, or FIs, to the real estate sector has started rising in recent years in a sign of the industry's recovery, people familiar with the development said. Bankers have attributed such a rise to the growing demand for...
Export earnings in February edged down 1.80 per cent year-on-year to $3.32 billion mainly because of a slowdown in apparel shipment, according to data from the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB). The February earning is also 10.74 per cent short of the $3.72 billion target set for the...