Businesses feel unease and inflation frowns while some liquidity-squeezing moves have been in place for months. The central bank, however, claims its contractionary monetary policy still looks accommodative in current context. Officials and money-market analysts say the monetary policy is c
The upward trend in remittances sent by Bangladesh expatriates has continued in January, with receiving over US $1.59 billion in 13 days of the month. Bangladesh received $17.85 billion in inward remittances from July to January 13, 2026, in the current fiscal year, FY 2025-26. It was 14.7 billion
Bangladesh’s Annual Development Programme (ADP) has recorded its lowest mid-year implementation rate in two decades, with only 17.54 per cent of allocations spent in the first six months of the 2025-26 fiscal year. According to the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED), Tk
Bangladesh’s medium-term economic outlook has improved, with growth expected to strengthen steadily over the next two fiscal years, according to the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects report. The report revised up its projections for Bangladesh, forecasting economic growth o
Bangladesh's turmoil-tossed economy shows significant signs of recovery with the July-September fiscal quarter showing a liftoff from a miasma over the last couple of years, analysts say, based on latest statistics. The economy got a boost with the gross domestic product (GDP) having grown at a ra
