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-- 2021-09-09 10:51:22
Racial and ethnic inequities have cost the US economy some $51 trillion in lost output since 1990, San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly said Wednesday, citing data from a paper she and th...
-- 2021-09-09 08:45:27
US job openings raced to a new record high in July while layoffs rose moderately, suggesting last month's sharp slowdown in hiring was due to employers being unable to find workers rather than weak de...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-09-08 16:18:03
Commodity dependence increased from 93 countries in 2008–2009 to 101 countries in 2018–2019 over the last decade, according to the latest report of the United Nations Conference on Trade a...
-- 2021-09-08 15:38:35
The government has taken several measures to provide seamless services to the taxpayers through automation and digitalisation of Income Tax, VAT and Customs Departments under the National Board Revenu...
-- 2021-09-08 11:33:32
China's exports unexpectedly grew at a faster pace in August thanks to solid global demand, helping take some of the pressure off the world's second-biggest economy as it navigates its way through hea...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2021-09-08 08:23:55
The fastest-growing e-commerce that has been carrying out trade transactions worth billions is yet to get government recognition as a business category, sources say. The e-commerce businesses do not...
FE REPORT 2021-09-07 10:17:58
Bangladesh should proactively engage with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to redress any fallout from the emerging geopolitics-geoeconomics diarchies in aftermaths of pandemic and the country's...
FE REPORT 2021-09-06 09:16:54
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) launched a Tk 5.0-billion re-financing scheme on Sunday to help mitigate adverse impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the marginal/landless farmers, low-income groups, school...
FE REPORT 2021-09-06 09:09:46
Tax exemptions are eroding 8.0 per cent from Bangladesh's tax-GDP ratio, but the government's revenue authority says it is necessary to spur economic growth. Bangladesh's tax-GDP ratio is one of th...
-- 2021-09-06 09:06:23
The United Arab Emirates plans to launch 50 new economic initiatives to boost the country's competitiveness and attract 550 billion dirhams ($150 billion) in foreign direct investment in the next nine...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-09-05 13:42:04
Financial Times (FT), the leading economic and financial daily across the world, starts its ‘bold new charitable initiative’ on financial literacy. The FT Financial Literacy and Inc...
-- 2021-09-05 10:56:34
In a sprawling oil palm plantation in the Malaysian state of Perak, watermelon seedlings are sprouting from freshly ploughed earth between palm saplings while rented cows graze in overgrown areas of t...
FE REPORT 2021-09-05 08:40:08
The prevailing Covid-19 pandemic has created new challenges like the rise of new poor and vulnerability of marginalised businesses for Bangladesh towards achieving sustainable development goals (SDG...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2021-09-05 08:30:19
Government's revenue authority has issued new directives to check VAT evasion and also simplify the process of business operations of cigarette companies, who, nevertheless, pay a king's ransom to t...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2021-09-05 08:15:52
Bangladesh's private corporate organisations may feel economic pressures from a blowback as the US Fed prepares to squeeze its spendthrift pandemic supports in a corrective action likely to cause 'tap...
FE REPORT 2021-09-04 10:42:24
Dhaka has started the process to conduct a feasibility study on signing either a PTA or FTA with Singapore, aiming to further strengthen economic and trade ties with the Southeast Asian country, off...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2021-09-04 09:27:16
All the fast-track projects in Bangladesh, save two, missed execution deadlines to entail massive cost escalation, insiders said. The Padma Bridge, its rail link, Rampal power plant, Pyra seaport d...
FE REPORT 2021-09-03 09:36:22
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) recognised Bangladesh Rating Agency Limited (BDRAL) as a full-fledged credit rating agency (CRA) on Thursday. BDRAL earlier used to rate only SMEs (small and medium enterpr...
FE REPORT 2021-09-03 09:05:45
Longer life expectancy, coupled with the gradual disappearance of the extended family system, makes it imperative for Bangladesh to design a robust pension system to avoid impoverishment in old age...
FE REPORT 2021-09-03 08:31:22
The country's earnings from merchandise exports fell short of the strategic target by 7.84 per cent to reach $6.85 billion in the July-August period this fiscal. Total export receipts in the first...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2021-09-03 08:19:45
Banks' capital base somewhat weakened in the first half of the current calendar year mainly under the weight of rising non-performing loans (NPLs), officials said. Strengths of the banking industry...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-09-02 15:17:21
Country’s trade gap with the rest of the world crossed $1.0 billion in a single month, July, this year, which is, to be precise, the first month of the current fiscal year (FY22). The latest st...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-09-02 12:55:37
The New Development Bank (NDB), established by BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in 2015, has approved Bangladesh as a new member. The NDB Board of Governors took this decision in...
REUTERS 2021-09-02 10:07:35
Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers struggled to keep the country functioning on Wednesday after the final withdrawal of US forces, with foreign donors alarmed about an impending humanitarian crisis, Reu...
FE REPORT 2021-09-02 08:52:20
The flow of inward remittances fell more than 19 per cent during July-August period of this fiscal year over the corresponding first two months of the past FY, according to official statistics, main...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-09-01 18:28:49
Despite the unprecedented expansion of social protection during the COVID-19 crisis, more than 4.0 billion people around the world remain entirely unprotected, a new International Labour Organization...
-- 2021-09-01 11:12:42
US consumer confidence fell to a six-month low in August as worries about soaring Covid-19 infections and higher inflation dimmed the outlook for the economy. The survey from the Conference Board on...
-- 2021-09-01 09:56:19
India's economy rebounded in the April-June quarter even while a devastating second wave of Covid-19 swept the country, with growth of over 20 per cent compared to a year earlier driven by a surge in...
-- 2021-09-01 09:10:10
Sri Lanka has declared an economic emergency empowering the authorities to seize stocks of staple foods and set their prices, to contain soaring inflation after a steep devaluation of its currency due...
-- 2021-08-31 20:32:53
India's economy grew by 20.1 per cent in the April-June quarter from the same period a year earlier, when it suffered a record contraction, the government announced Tuesday, raising hopes of an econom...
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