Economy

Agricultural loan disbursement increased by 7% in the first eight months of FY21 compared to the same period of the previous financial year, but banks lag behind in meeting disbursement targets. Between July and February of FY20, 62.56% (a little more than Tk15,000 crore)...

Bangladesh and Sri Lanka governments signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Saturday for strengthening their youth development.  State Minister for Youth and Sports Zahid Ahsan Russel and Sri Lanka State Minister for Rural Housing and Construction Indika Anuruddha signed the instrument on cooperation...

বৈশ্বিক বাজারে অনলাইন প্ল্যাটফর্মে কাজের চাহিদা আসে মূলত উন্নত দেশগুলো থেকে। তবে সরবরাহ আসে ঠিক ভিন্ন আরেক অঞ্চল থেকে—উন্নয়নশীল দেশ। উন্নত দেশেও অনেকে ফ্রিল্যান্সিং করে থাকেন। তবে তাঁদের ক্ষেত্রে কাজের প্রণোদনা ভিন্ন। অন্যদিকে এই জগতে বাংলাদেশের হিস্যা কমেছে। ব্যাপারটা হলো, উন্নত দেশের মানুষেরা যেখানে...

Country's publishing industry is in dire straits due to the prolonged closure of educational institutions in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. The closure has cut down the sales of publishing houses by over 70 per cent, the industry people have claimed.

Despite having a sharp rise in sales amid the pandemic, Bangladesh dropped 12 notches in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)'s Business-to-Consumer (B2C) e-Commerce Index 2020 due to infrastructure deficiency. Bangladesh ranked 115th, down from 103rd in 2019, as per the...

Business confidence in Bangladesh improved in the last quarter of 2020 as the economy strived to recover from the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study. The Business Confidence Index (BCI) of the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (Sanem) went...

Muzahid Khan, Managing Director of Janala Venture, describes his company’s assessment of the current business opportunities in Bangladesh. FOR MANY, Bangladesh is known for its garment trade, an industry that now accounts for nearly 78% of the country’s exports. It is second only...

Women entrepreneurs need to be skilled in digitalisation in order to avail the advantages of modern technology so that they can give a boost to their businesses, according to Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, speaker of Bangladesh Parliament. "We have seen many potentials in e-commerce businesses...

Bangladesh recorded a 34.95 per cent growth of remittance in seven months of the fiscal year 2020-21 (FY21) compared to the same period of the last fiscal year. The country received $1.96 billion in remittance in January 2021, said the finance ministry on Monday.

Inflation dropped to 5.02 per cent in January, the lowest in eight and a half years, on the back of the arrival of winter vegetables that contributed to the consumer price decline, official figures showed yesterday. This is the third straight month of overall...