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Cypriot Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides had said that the country’s economic growth is expected to slow down to 2.9 per cent in 2020 from 3.2 per cent this year.

The revenue of China’s ready-made garment (RMG) industry was lower in the first 10 months of the current year, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

Bangladesh has attained self-sufficiency in fish production as the country’s per capita fish consumption has increased to 62.58 grams per day against the demand of 60 grams.

Canada’s jobless rate rose to 5.9 per cent in November from 5.5 per cent in October, Statistics Canada has said.

Cypriot Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides had said that the country’s economic growth is expected to slow down to 2.9 per cent in 2020 from 3.2 per cent this year.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Tuesday that it has approved a 400 million US dollars policy-based loan to support the Philippine government’s efforts to reduce the number of out-of-school and unemployed young Filipinos that impedes more inclusive growth in the country.

The Afghan government’s National Procurement Commission (NPC) has approved 35 contracts worth 46 million US dollars, the Presidential Palace said on Wednesday.

The Philippines has declined Bangladesh’s claim for the 20 million US dollars the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) was fined for its negligence in the $81 million Bangladesh Bank heist.

US online shoppers spent 68.1 billion US dollars in November, with 7.4 billion dollars on Black Friday (Nov. 29) alone, data from the web analytics tool Adobe Analytics showed.

The government is set to form a panel with the task of bringing interest rates down to a single digit.