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Jute, the golden fiber of Bangladesh may bring in a golden future for the country, and contribute to becoming the new growth driver of the economy.Experts said, jute is turning out to be an important natural and environment-friendly raw material for multifarious uses.The demand for jute is increasin...
The country's foreign exchange reserves rose by $1 billion within 20 days to touch a life-time high of $35 billion on Wednesday despite a global economic recession amid the Covid-19 crisis.This month (June) the forex reserve has witnessed two records - crossing $34 billion to reach $35 billion m...
Around 8 million entrepreneurs of small and medium enterprises and 25 million employees in this sector are struggling hard to survive due to the virus pandemic and want government support to keep alive their earning sources.Like many other countries of the world, the small and medium enterprises (SM...
With the rising trend in both death and infection among the government officials and employees, the government may go under a lot of pressure to compensate its officials and employees, finance ministry sources said. On April 23, the finance ministry issued a circular stating that all government...
The livestock sector will keep the rural economy strong despite the country’s economy passing a critical time for the deadly coronavirus.The country's overall businesses have seriously been affected due to the pandemic, which has created huge unemployment.On the other hand, many expatriate...
The government should ensure job security and create huge employment in the private sector to achieve 8.2 percent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate in fiscal 2020-21, say experts.They opine the country's overall businesses have seriously been affected due to the coronavirus pandemic.Most ...
Sixty new projects involving about TK 38 thousand crore in the health sector will help give health services a good shape.A senior official of the Planning Ministry said the government has given more emphasis on development of the country's health sector due to the Covid-19 crisis.In this context...
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The proposed budget has given the highest priority to save people’s lives during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic now prevailing across the country, the finance minister said.Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said, “People have been given priority in this year's budget, not economic...
The fresh strategy of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) will help to achieve the big revenue target of Tk 3,30,000 crore in the proposed budget for the 2020-21 fiscal.In order to increase the revenue in the next fiscal year, the government has adopted several strategies this time including tax reb...
Total revenue collection target Tk 378,000 croreOverall deficit Tk 190,000 croreInflation target 5.4 percenFinance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday placed a Tk 568,000 crore (5.68 trillion) budget for 2020-21 fiscal year in the Jatiya Sangsad, targeting an ambitious 8.2 percent GDP growt...
The government plans to place a bigger budget with a target of achieving 8.2 percent GDP growth for the fiscal year 2020-2021 by creating huge employment opportunities.A Finance Ministry official said that the government has taken many initiatives in the next budget to overcome the economic losses c...
The government has planned to place a bigger budget to face the ongoing and post Covid-19 pandemic situation.Leading economists said that the government has to endure extra pressure to fight against coronavirus crisis as it intends to widen budget deficits in the next budget.They said the Covid-19 p...
In an ambitious plan, the National Board of Revenue (NBR), country’s central authority for tax administration, has set the revenue collection target at Tk 3,30,000 crore in the upcoming fiscal 2020-21.Experts say while the huge amount of revenue collection in the outgoing year remains unrealiz...
The foreign exchange reserves hit an all time high crossing $34 billion for the first time despite a global economic recession amid the Covid-19 crisis.Forex reserves reached $34.23 billion till June 3 following lower import payment pressure due to the coronavirus pandemic. The previous highest rese...
Though millions of Bangladeshi migrant workers toiling abroad due to the Covid-19 crisis and fall in oil prices, crisis-ridden expatriates are still providing oxygen for economy by continuing to send remittances at home.Market analysts said expatriate workers have continued to send money to their ho...
The ongoing coronavirus crisis has virtually paralysed export and import activities, dropping trade deficitto $10.77 billion in the first eight months (July-February)of fiscal year (FY) 2019-20.The country’s merchandise trade deficit with the rest of the world declined slightly during the time...
Highest importance will have to be given on health, social security, agriculture and employment in the next budget for the fiscal 2020-2021 to overcome economic losses amid Covid-19 crisis, economists say.They said the budget should be a sustainable budget for the next fiscal as it has many ch...
The government has given special focus on social safety net and related activities in the draft budget for the fiscal 2020-21 due to Covid-19 pandemic.Strengthening the social safety net has been given the highest priority in the next budget, almost one crore low-income people will come under the so...
A huge number of people are returning to the capital Dhaka to join work as per the government decision ignoring the risk of coronavirus infection.The ban on public transport failed to contain the influx of Dhaka-bound people from different districts of the country on Thursday following the celebrati...
A mass exodus from capital Dhaka as well as from other metropolitan cities and district towns has gotten underway with people rushing home desperately and recklessly amid the Covid-19 havoc.With the infection and death rate from the novel coronavirus touching records every day in Bangladesh, people ...
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