German Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Fahrenholtz sees enough strength in Bangladesh economy to rebound soon from a Corona crisis slowdown. He also said Bangladesh can an important destination of German investment and trades as German investors and traders are looking to relocate their investment and businesses. The...
As global growth recovers in the coming quarters, Bangladesh stands to benefit from its strong economic fundamentals and will likely continue to deliver steady growth rates despite COVID-19 pandemic. Co-head of HSBC’s Asian Economics Research Frederic Neumann came up with the statement at a virtual session for...
A pair of sentences, published on April 17, show us how strange globalization has become: "Two semi-trailer trucks, cleverly marked as food-service vehicles, met us at the warehouse. When fully loaded, the trucks would take two distinct routes back to Massachusetts to minimize the chances that their...
Suspicious transaction and activity in Bangladesh fell by 7.86 per cent year-on-year in 2018-19, in a development that may raise questions whether banks and other reporting agencies are monitoring the anomalies properly. The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) received 3,573 suspicious transaction reports (STRs) and suspicious activity...
The coronavirus impact has failed to restrict public agencies from the race for including unapproved projects in the current development programme as nearly 1,450 have been added to tally. An FE analysis has found that many of the projects in the Annual Development Programme (ADP) for fiscal...
করোনাকালে একে তো চাকরি নেই। অন্যদিকে জমানো টাকাও শেষের পথে। আবার নিয়মিত বাড়িভাড়া শোধ করতে না পারায় বকেয়া মিটিয়ে ফ্ল্যাট খালি করার নোটিশও পেয়েছেন কেউ কেউ। যেখানে তিনবেলা স্বাভাবিক খাবারের ব্যবস্থা করতে হিমশিম খেতে হচ্ছে, সেখানে আয়ের বাইরে থেকে হাজার হাজার টাকা খরচ করে ভাড়া বাড়িতে পরিবার...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with its Bangkok Regional Hub, launched the Future of Work Lab in Bangladesh on Thursday aiming to facilitate and accelerate Bangladesh towards a more robust economy keeping into account many challenges it is facing.
Deputy Resident...
A study suggested identifying critically important sectors for reopening the country’s economy by assessing the high/low risks of the spread of Covid-19 infection in those sectors.
The survey, titled “Reopening the Bangladesh Economy: Search for a Framework”, was conducted by the Center for Enterprise...
Last week, Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve Chairman, waved the red flag on what is increasingly looking to be a legacy of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic: a wave of small business failures. "The pandemic is presenting acute risks to small businesses. If a small or medium-sized business...
Hope ran high on easing restrictions on movement and economic activities, but one month on people from all walks of life are laregely disappointed by the outcome. The poor, in particular, are still struggling to make ends meet. The government had imposed restrictions on normal economic activities...