-- 2020-12-12 17:56:04
As Bangladesh looks forward to graduating out of the least developed country (LDC) status in 2024, it's increasingly emphasising on bilateral preferential trade agreement (PTA) and free trade agreemen...
-- 2020-12-12 17:50:31
Bangladesh’s economy will get a huge boost with the expected ‘industrial revolution’ in 21 southwestern districts after the inauguration of the long-cherished Padma Multi-Purpose Bri...
-- 2020-12-12 12:46:56
Thailand's Ministry of Commerce has unveiled a strategy outline to boost export in 2021 by focusing on online trade promotion activities. "We will arrange an online business match-making every week o...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2020-12-12 10:34:00
Two major lenders are expected to provide US$1.0 billion in loans to help Bangladesh procure Covid-19 vaccines, officials said on Friday. Both the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (AD...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2020-12-12 08:53:15
The global shipping crisis has fuelled freight charges, thus making the country's imported items costlier, businesses said on Friday. Shipping schedules around the world were disrupted by the pandemi...
Reuters 2020-12-11 15:59:22
The ability of developing countries in Asia to fight the coronavirus pandemic got a much-needed boost after the Asian Development Bank said on Friday it has launched a $9 billion facility to help na...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2020-12-11 11:08:43
The central bank has imposed an additional 1.0 per cent general provision against all unclassified loans aiming to improve financial health along with the shock-absorbing capacity of banks, officials...
FE REPORT 2020-12-11 10:48:33
Experts and analysts during a webinar on Thursday said Bangladesh may face challenges in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) for formation of China-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnersh...
FE REPORT 2020-12-11 10:36:10
The government needs to enhance the coverage of social protection by adding new poor to the new plans for tackling the second wave of coronavirus, experts said on Thursday. For proper execution of th...
Reuters 2020-12-11 10:23:19
Most banks around the world could face four more years of depressed profits in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, consulting firm McKinsey & Co said in a report. By 2024 the pandemic will re...
FE REPORT 2020-12-11 10:23:17
Former governor of Bangladesh Bank Dr Mohammed Farashuddin on Thursday said the country's private commercial banks are dictating banking policies. He also held responsible the domination of private b...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2020-12-11 09:32:28
The revenue authority faced a Tk 275.56 billion shortfall in tax collection until November of the current fiscal year against its target due to sluggish economic activities amid the Covid-19 pandemic....
FE REPORT 2020-12-11 08:55:47
Speakers at a discussion on Thursday urged the government to redefine the development strategy from the economic growth-centric paradigm to reducing inequality and disparity. They have suggested maki...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-12-10 23:15:35
A new study has identified a number of key areas for entrepreneurial engagements between Bangladesh and the Netherlands, to scale up bilateral development cooperation. The Bangladesh Embassy in the N...
FE Online Report 2020-12-10 14:15:58
Two prominent global rights groups on Thursday called on the European Union and high-income countries including USA, Canada, Japan, and UK to urgently support the TRIPS corona waiver proposal and ensu...
-- 2020-12-10 13:01:37
Economic activity in developing Asia is forecast to contract by 0.4 per cent this year before picking up to 6.8 per cent in 2021 as the region moves toward recovery from the effects of the coronavirus...
Reuters 2020-12-10 10:19:04
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Wednesday that she expects an IMF programme that freezes payments on IMF debt from the poorest countries to be extended throu...
FE REPORT 2020-12-10 08:45:53
As much as 90 per cent extreme-poor families have a paltry monthly income of Tk 2,000 (US$23.80). The World Bank (WB) considers an individual living on or below $1.25 per day as extreme poor. Furthe...
-- 2020-12-09 18:52:38
A full recovery of the economy from the coronavirus crisis is still uncertain as more than half the funds from stimulus package for the cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises (CMSMEs) remain und...
UNB 2020-12-09 17:50:01
The value of global merchandise trade is predicted to fall by 5.6 per cent in 2020 compared with last year, according to UNCTAD's latest nowcasts. This would be the biggest fall in merchandise trade...
-- 2020-12-09 17:18:21
The coronavirus pandemic has slowed efforts to make safer the often hazardous job of dismantling old ships in Bangladesh, officials said, following the latest worker fatality. Covid-19 temporarily sh...
FE Online Desk 2020-12-09 17:11:48
A subsidiary of the state-owned Janata Bank in New York, which lost $603,947 equivalent to Tk 51 million sometime before February 2020, is yet to recover the money allegedly stolen by a hired officer....
-- 2020-12-08 21:00:15
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has underscored the need for providing a special focus on strengthening domestic resource mobilisation in the Eighth Five-Year Plan (8th FYP) to address Covid-19 c...
-- 2020-12-08 17:43:52
The government will construct a two-storey expressway from Panchabati of Narayanganj to Muktarpur Bridge of Munshiganj with an expenditure of Tk 22.28 billion. The Executive Committee of the National...
FE Online Report 2020-12-08 16:49:40
The government will launch a new financial grant worth US$40 million on Wednesday to help four export-oriented sectors address the infrastructural constraints. The Public Investment Facility for Infr...
-- 2020-12-08 15:43:10
As of Monday, more than 110,000 US restaurants have completely closed amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, according to the National Restaurant Association. "The vast majority of permanently clo...
-- 2020-12-08 15:17:25
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a 50-million US dollar loan to help restore the economic activities of microenterprises in Bangladesh, which have been severely affected by the coronaviru...
-- 2020-12-07 23:14:20
The World Economic Forum’s annual gathering of political and business leaders will move from Switzerland to Singapore next year as the COVID-19 pandemic would make it challenging to host the eve...
-- 2020-12-07 14:02:55
Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board has said that the country's tourist arrivals in January to September this year had slumped 78.6 per cent to 4.3 million from 20.1 million a year ago, as the spread of...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2020-12-07 08:56:37
Banks are going to face substantial pressure originating from an ever-bulging defaulted loans in the next years as the regulatory support in this particular area is due to expire by the end of this ca...
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