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The prices of essential commodities will go up typically after the annual national budget is announced, two-thirds of the respondents of a recent survey on the impact of national budget on the public life, particularly on the poor and extreme poor communities thought.

The annual national budget is the most important government statement of its socio-economic policy for the coming year. The FY2019-20 budget is the last budget for the implementation of the 7th Five-Year Plan (FYP). It is also the first budget for the new government elected in 2018 and provides an …

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that more than three quarters of the economists polled by the newspaper expected the US Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.

The number of total Tax Identification Number (TIN) holders in the country is now 40,37,429 (over 4.037 million).

Bangladeshi expatriates have remitted US$15.06 billion till May in the current fiscal 2018-19, which is $1,462 million higher than same period of the last fiscal.

The number of total loan defaulters in the country is now 170,390 and total amount of defaulted loans is over Tk 1.02 trillion (Tk 102,315.19 crore).

Bank Indonesia (BI), the central bank of the country, is expected to keep its benchmark interest rate steady at a policy review on Thursday, a Reuters poll showed.

Indonesia plans to cut several different taxes to boost investment and accelerate economic growth, its finance minister said on Wednesday.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed interest to know about the definition of wilful loan defaulters, which will be used for identifying them legally.

The government said state-owned enterprises (SoEs) will incur a loss of Tk 56.7 billion in the next fiscal year, accentuated by rising price of fuel in the international market.