The Global Bangladeshi Alliance (GBA), a diaspora-led platform, hosted its first policy dialogue in Dhaka on Monday, unveiling an economy-focused roadmap aimed at integrating Bangladesh into the global digital trade while preparing its workforce for the challenges of rapid automation. At the event
Bangladesh received a record-high $17.17 billion in inward remittances during the first six months and seven days of fiscal year 2025–26, underscoring the resilience of overseas earnings and providing crucial support to the country’s foreign exchange reserves amid global trade headwinds
Planning Adviser Professor Wahiduddin Mahmud on Monday said the government would not take foreign loans extensively for the social sectors. Rather, it would take loans for the sectors that would attract investments, he said. Looking ahead, he said, Bangladesh must rethink its development financin
Health and education sectors have taken the major brunt of a sizeable cut in the current development budget halfway through the fiscal year. The ongoing Annual Development Programme (ADP) outlay for the fiscal year 2025-26 has been cut by 13.04 per cent to Tk 2.0 trillion. With Chief Adviser Prof
A proposed Tk 2.0-trillion Revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) for the current fiscal year will be placed before the National Economic Council (NEC) today for approval, marking a 7.41-percent decline from the FY25 RADP and the lowest revised development outlay in the past five years. Pla
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) on Sunday launched large-value tax payment facilities through mobile financial services (MFS) to make corporate tax payment easier, faster and more digital. As part of the inauguration, trial transactions were conducted through bKash Limited's online merchant
Bangladesh is failing to capitalise on vast opportunities in the global packaging market, estimated at around US$700 billion, due to inadequate policy support and absence of export incentives, industry leaders have said. Despite strong manufacturing capacity and growing global demand, the sector r
COAST Foundation, BDCSO Process, and EquityBD Saturday warned that the government’s plan to set up a separate microcredit bank could harm Bangladesh’s poorest people. The proposal is being promoted as a “social innovation,” but the civil society organisations (CSOs) say it
Bangladesh’s overall Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose slightly in December, indicating a faster pace of economic expansion, driven mainly by continued growth in agriculture, manufacturing and services, according to the latest PMI report. PMI increased by 0.2 points in December fro
BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury on Monday said their party would work to further strengthen Bangladesh’s business organisations to overcome bureaucratic complexities and revitalise the economy. “From my experience as a former commerce minister, I learned that
Sammilito Islami Bank received deposits amounting to Tk 440 million in the first two days of its operation. BB Governor Dr Ahsan H. Mansur disclosed this at a press briefing on Monday at the BB headquarters, where the newborn Islamic bank’s Chairman Dr Ayub Miah, administrators of the five
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has taken a step towards fully digitising the country's VAT administration by introducing a new initiative that allows taxpayers to bring all previously submitted paper-based VAT returns under the e-VAT system. It has added a sub-module titled "Hard Copy Return
Bangladesh has achieved a measure of macroeconomic stabilisation, but the progress has come at the cost of slower economic growth, weak investment and declining purchasing power, speakers said at a policy dialogue in the capital on Sunday. The observations were made at the launch of the latest iss
