Developing Asia’s economic revival is underway, supported by a healthy global recovery and progress on vaccines. The region’s growth is forecast to rebound to 7.3% in 2021, moderating to 5.3% in 2022.

Developing Asia’s economic revival is underway, supported by a healthy global recovery and progress on vaccines. The region’s growth is forecast to rebound to 7.3% in 2021, moderating to 5.3% in 2022.
Dhaka, Mar 31: World Bank on Wednesday forecast that Bangladesh’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will increase by 3.6% in 2020-2021 fiscal year, due to better than expected remittance inflows.
Dhaka, Oct 10 – The World Bank has forecast over 7.2% Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for the current fiscal year (FY2019-20) of Bangladesh, driven by manufacturing and domestic demands, while government’s projection for the same fiscal year in the…
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Dhaka, June 14 – Terming the budget “pro-people” Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the Tk 5,23,190 crore outlay for FY2019-20 is pretty self-explanatory and there is no scope of confusion. “We prepared the budget for our common people, not…
Dhaka, June 14 (UNB) – Foreign Investors’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (FICCI) on Friday said the GDP growth target of 8.2 percent is achievable provided that GDP-investment ratio increase to the expected level of 32 percent. In a post-budget…
Income Tax, Value Added Tax and Import-Export Duty NBR officials work relentlessly to achieve the revenue target set by the government every year. NBR tax revenue is basically collected from Income Tax, Value Added Tax (VAT) and Import & Export…
Dhaka, June 10 (UNB)-Bangladesh’s export earnings from Ready-Made Garment (RMG) sector earned $31.73 billion in the first 11 months of the fiscal (July to May), up 12.82 percent from the corresponding period of the last fiscal, when it was $28.12…
Dhaka, May 26 – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday alleged that the government’s assertion o achieving 8.13 percent GDP growth in 2018-19 fiscal year is nothing but a trick of mathematics. “The government used to talk…
Dhaka, May 13 (UNB) – Projections by Standard Chartered Bank estimate that Bangladeshis will be better off than their neighbouring Indians on a per capita basis by 2030. The 2020s are set to be the Asian decade, with the continent…
Dhaka, Apr 4 (UNB) – Bangladesh is among the top five fastest growing economies in the world, said the World Bank. The report titled ‘The Bangladesh Development Update April 2019: Towards Regulatory Predictability’, published Thursday, said this growth, despite of…
Dhaka, Apr 3 (UNB) – Bangladesh’s economy will grow at 8 percent in 2019-20 fiscal, according to the Asian Development Outlook 2019 released here on Wednesday. “Bangladesh experienced a strong GDP growth in FY2018-19. The country will continue to achieve…