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In recent years, treasury bills and bond interest rates have exceeded those of savings certificates
When prices of widely consumed staples like potatoes, edible oil, sugar or onions spike and remain inflated for extended periods, it understandably hits the poor and low-income people where it hurts the most: in their wallet.
Based on the compilation of media reports on bank scams between 2008 and 2023, CPD said as much as 92 thousand crores of taka have been siphoned out of the banking sector in the last fifteen years
How can Bangladesh avoid the economic crisis to deepen further?
Around 50 per cent of the rawhides Bangladesh produces a year come during every Eid-ul-Azha, when around 1 crore animals are sacrificed at a time.
Crowds of hundreds of people were seen in front of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) trucks in Rampura area of the capital, to avail daily necessities at low prices.
As per its tradition, The Daily Star has printed a number of cartoons about the budget. Star Multimedia presents an assortment of these cartoons for the 2021-22 budget.
Despite the allocation of over Tk 107.6 billion for social security, the budget failed to become a refuge to the people with desperate needs, struggles and dreams.
Budget of fiscal year 2021-22 was proposed today, and it will determine the economic future of Bangladesh and its people.
“Black money” -- a term that blows up every budget season, a color that you cannot see, but still somehow is allowed to be “whitened”.
Mobile phone and device manufacturing sector has grown exponentially in Bangladesh keeping pace with the growth of the ICT sector in the country. But this sector has also been a victim of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic.
The national budget is once again upon us. This year, the government is going to place the annual budget for 2021-22 fiscal year when the Covid-19 pandemic is taking a toll on the national economy. The Daily Star has tried to find out how much damage the virus has caused to economic activities and how it affected investment in the country? What are the steps the government now needs to take to overcome the challenges? To find answers to the questions, Star Business Talks approached Rupali Chowdhury, president of Foreign Investors’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry and managing director of Berger Paints Bangladesh. Watch the full interview here.
The economic shock induced by the pandemic has pushed 2.45 crore people into poverty in one year. The Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and the Brac Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) run this survey and found that the number of new poor people is higher in urban areas than in rural areas.
With only around 4.62 lakh tonnes of grains in the public food stocks, one of the lowest in years, the government has moved to procure paddy, rice and wheat from local farmers and millers at prices higher than last year's.
