Urging foreign investors to invest heavily in Bangladesh, Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) Chairman Professor Shibli Rubayat-Ul-Islam said that this is the high time to invest in Bangladesh as Bangladesh is in a wonderful place geographically, Bangladesh’s GDP growth is increasing despite the outbreak of Coronavirus...
Bangladesh wants to partner with the US private sector in the research and development of uninterrupted and affordable renewable energy sources. Speaking at an ‘Energy Roundtable’ organized by the US-Bangladesh Business Council (USBBC) in Washington, DC on Thursday, PM’s Adviser for Power, Energy and...
The government is formulating a national tariff policy to protect domestic industries, attract new investment, and make the government's policy support long lasting and business-friendly, sources familiar with the development have said. The commerce ministry had recently directed the Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission...
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpanagar (BSMSN), an upcoming smart industrial city, is shaping the future of Bangladesh by attracting a huge amount of local and foreign investments, observed an expert on economic zones. Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (Beza) consultant Md Abdul Quader Khan mentioned that...
Bangladesh is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Its economy has been growing steadily at the rate of above 6.5% on average over a decade and thus has transformed the country into a land of opportunities. It is now being considered as the next...
Japan will make more investments in Bangladesh when situation returns to normal after the Covid-19 pandemic ends. Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh ITO Naoki said this when he called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Gono Bhaban today. After...
New investments have dropped across the world amid the pandemic, but when investments were diverted from China, Japan and Europe, Bangladesh fell behind its competitors to grab them. High interest rate, weak infrastructure, environment not conducive to business and no incentive for investors are...
As interest in the Bangladeshi startup ecosystem has grown, so has the responsibility of angel investors and other early stage stakeholders to properly assist founders and startups in preparing for their next stages of growth and funding. At Anchorless Bangladesh, we've spent the last 18 months better...
Chinese investors find infrastructure crisis, a lack of policy reforms and insecurity as the major stumbling blocks to the implementation of the registered investment proposals – resulting in low foreign direct investment (FDI) in Bangladesh. At a webinar on Monday, they suggested reducing the...
Investment, both domestic and foreign, nosedived in 2020 with little hope of recovery before the second half of 2021 amid the COVID-19-induced global economic slowdown and the fear of a second wave of the pandemic. A persisting stagnation in domestic and foreign direct investment...