Dhaka April 22, 2026, 3:28 pm
The economic downturn due to COVID-19 has severely affected the country's internal revenue collection that posted 2.73-per cent negative growth in March 2020.
Continuation of the current economic stagnation during the government-declared shutdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus will result in a grim economic outlook for Bangladesh, economists warn.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s private sector adviser Salman F Rahman on Saturday said the country’s export-oriented factories must be reopened slowly by maintaining necessary health protocol to save the economy.
The first one month of the ongoing lockdown that ends today (Sunday) has already affected the country's economy seriously.
Out of Tk 11.27 billion project cost, $100 million or nearly Tk 850 crore will come from the World Bank credit and the rest from the government exchequer
Jica is willing to give the loan gradually over some fiscal years
A segment of export-oriented readymade garment factories will reopen on Sunday in a limited capacity with a minimum number of workers, especially those who are living in the adjacent areas.
The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak will likely send the Philippine economy into its first annual contraction in more than two decades this year,
The state-owned Sadharan Bima Corporation (SBC) has launched, for the first time, flood index-based crop insurance for haor (wetland) areas.
The Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF), a dedicated multilateral partnership platform to support the poorest countries in trade,
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) on Friday night directed its member factories not to ask workers who are in their villages to return to Dhaka until factory opening date is announced.
Bangladesh is, however, not too much burdened with external debt and the country never defaulted service debts
RMG workers unable to sending money to their families.
Marginalised people in hard-to-reach areas like char, haor, coastal and hilly areas are at risk of famine
The Prime Minister said this while delivering her inaugural remarks at a virtual conference arranged by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on ‘Enhancing regional cooperation in South Asia to combat Covid-19 related impact on its
The Rome government sees Italy’s debt-to-GDP ratio surging to between 155 per cent and 159 per cent of national output this year,
The coronavirus pandemic battered Asian economies in April
Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said the government has no plan to offer any fresh stimulus package for businesses as they have already got better policy and fiscal supports.
As economic activities came to a grinding halt amid the nationwide shutdown aimed
Four in five workers in country’s readymade garment sector received their salary by mid-April
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