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Bangladesh has good potential to build ships and earn sufficient remittance to increase the country's economy by exporting them to other countries, said experts on Sunday. Speaking at a seminar titled ''Transforming to a Shipbuilding and exporting country: challenges for Bangladesh," experts urged the...

Bangladesh expects a bigger inflow of foreign direct investment in the days to come as different nations plan to relocate their factories to countries like Bangladesh to bring down cost amid a cash crunch caused by the pandemic, said Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday. In 2019, the...

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A United Nations report on Tuesday said that Bangladesh’s gross domestic product growth fell to 0.5 per cent in the calendar year 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Bangladesh saw its economic growth down to 0.5 per cent in 2020 from 8.4 per cent...

Bangladesh has reported 5.24 percent GDP growth in FY 2019-20 with the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the economy for at least a third of the financial year. The size of the GDP stood past Tk 27.96 trillion while per capita GNI surged to $2,064 from $1,909 the previous...

The Bangladesh economy is losing Tk 33 billion every day from its service and agriculture sectors during the nationwide shutdown over the coronavirus outbreak, a new study says. Researchers from Dhaka University’s Institute of Health Economics released the finding after analysing the state of national economy from...

Bangladesh's investment to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio rose in the just-concluded fiscal year, data from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday, in what can be viewed as an inexplicable development as most indicators were pointing towards a contrary scenario. The finance ministry itself projected...

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has said today that Bangladesh's GDP growth will be no more than 2.5 percent this fiscal year, and that poverty will soar by 35 percent. CPD made these projections under an "optimistic scenario", saying that this is the best case of...

Policies and regulations for both banks and non-banks need to be improved to accelerate financial inclusion as it will lead to private sector investment in the industry and enhance the credit worthiness of small businesses, according to experts. "We are emphasising on the development of small businesses...

দেশের জিডিপিতে চলতি ২০১৯-২০ অর্থবছরের জন্য ৭ দশমিক ২ শতাংশ এবং পরের অর্থবছরের জন্য ৭ দশমিক ৩ শতাংশ প্রবৃদ্ধির পূর্বাভাস দিয়েছে বিশ্বব্যাংক। সরকারি অনুমানে ২০১৮-১৯ অর্থবছরে ৮ দশমিক ১ শতাংশ প্রবৃদ্ধির দেখা পাওয়া বাংলাদেশ এ অঞ্চলের তৃতীয় বৃহৎ অর্থনীতি। এ দেশ ভারত ও পাকিস্তানের তুলনায় ভালো অবস্থানে...