Economy

Moshiur Rahman Suruz, founder of Rose Model Kindergarten in Meherpur, invested Tk10 lakh in the school in 2017. The school was doing well but after the outbreak of Covid-19 in March last year, the government closed all educational institutions. He then sold a piece...

China's immense manufacturing power has drawn a series of environmental and wage concerns around the globe. Its increasingly hawkish geopolitical posture has attracted countless critics and has been perceived as a threat worldwide. It has also sparred with the United States in the form of a trade...

State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Sunday called on Bangladesh Bank to play a dual role of a regulator and also a facilitator to help develop the country's e-commerce sector, as well as new innovations. He made the...

Amid Covid-19 pandemic uncertainties, the economy of Bangladesh is showing promising signs of recovery backed by a rebound in exports, strong remittance inflows, and the ongoing vaccination program, according to a World Bank report.  The World Bank launched the report titled "Bangladesh Development Update-...

Bangladesh recently completed 50 years as an independent country. A remarkable story of struggle and resilience, Bangladesh is often held up as a ‘development miracle’. Bangladesh’s flourishing readymade garments industry, a robust pharmaceutical industry and other assorted manufacturing sectors have fully embraced an exports-led growth model. Indeed,...

As part of the government’s privatisation plan, it has shut down 2 out of 25 jute mills operated by the state-owned Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) burdened with heavy losses. In line with the plan to send the existing workers of 25 jute mills...

The delivery service of different products ordered by customers through online platforms is getting popular during the ongoing week-long lockdown issued by the government to halt the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak. Business people said that the order and delivery of food and grocery...

The government is developing the country's first industrial park for electrical and light engineering product manufacturers at a cost of Tk 300 crore in Munshiganj, which could herald a beginning to bring the highly scattered and unorganised industries under a single platform. Already 83...

Businesses are now deeply worried that resurgence of the Covid-19 might unsettle the recovery they have been making in recent months following a notable improvement in both infection and fatality rates. A number of businessmen while talking to the FE have expressed their deep...

On March 17, Bangladesh kicked off its 10-day series of celebrations of the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the golden jubilee of the country's independence. As a good friend of Bangladesh, China would definitely not be absent from such...