The interim government of Bangladesh will likely revise the country’s projection of gross domestic product (GDP) growth to 5.25 percent from 6.75 percent for the current fiscal year of 2024-25..This issue was discussed at a fiscal coordination council meeting chaired by Finance Adviser Sal
The ADB has lowered its forecast for Bangladesh’s economic growth to 5.1 percent for the current fiscal year, primarily due to supply disruptions caused by political unrest in July and August 2024
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is expected to provide $20.8 billion in loans to Bangladesh in the next four years as the country looks to accelerate economic growth and attain the upper-middle-income status in less than a decade.
The test of a country’s stability is to what extent it can remain insensitive to any sort of change of government or leadership.
Growth has been the constant in the journey of the Bangladesh economy over the last two decades. Starting from 2004, excluding the outlier year of 2020 when the world economy was severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, Bangladesh has maintained a growth rate of over five percent or more.
Bangladesh’s economy has been passing through a challenging time for the past two years amidst growing pressure on foreign exchange reserves, the sharp depreciation of the taka and an elevated level of inflation
government is likely to lower its economic growth target by one percentage point for the fiscal year ending in June
Bangladesh wrapped up the last fiscal year of 2022-23 with slower economic growth. A similar trend has persisted in the ongoing fiscal year as portrayed by at least three key indicators: exports, remittances and imports. .The growth of export receipts, the biggest foreign currency earner f
Today, Dhaka is a dysfunctional megacity, an economic hub that has grown chaotically – outwards and upwards – to absorb more than 20 million people who live there, and hundreds of thousands more arriving each year.
In 2018, Bangladesh began its graduation process from least developed country to developing country status. Bangladesh has now
Bangladesh has a fairly young population with 34 percent aged 15 and younger and just five percent aged 65 and older. At present, more than 65 percent of our population is of working age, between 15 and 64.
Three global rating agencies have reaffirmed a stable economic outlook for Bangladesh, mostly for the strong economic growth and improvement in external profile.
What is the future economic growth prospect of Bangladesh? An analysis of Bangladesh's past economic growth in a comparative perspective can help find an answer to this question.
Bangladesh needs to clock in at least 10 percent economic growth for the next two decades if it wants to become a developed country
With the advent of fast internet connections in our country, the e-commerce sector has boomed. Every day, a huge number of transactions occur as businesses conduct their operations without even meeting their clients face to face. But is this method of conducting business truly safe and secured?
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) says only five countries, including Bangladesh of the 45 least developed countries (LDCs), achieved economic growth at 7 percent or higher in 2017.
The UN has predicted a steady economic growth for Bangladesh this year and the next year, but voiced concern over rising
