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Mobile financial service BKash is jointly working with the garment companies and their associated banks to ensure the apparel workers’ accounts so that the government can pay their wages directly, said a press release.

Faced with a once-in-a-century economic crisis, governments are rolling out massive spending programs that will increase debt and deficits, but IMF economist Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti said now is not the time to worry about that.

Google and Facebook’s advertising businesses, which have roughly tripled in combined size over the past five years, may be headed for a rare stumble as the coronavirus pushes the global economy into a tailspin.

Bangladesh’s economic growth will be between 2.0 and 3.0 per cent in the current fiscal in the aftermath of coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank has forecast. The WB has made the forecast on Bangladesh’s economic growth in its report on “South Asia Economic Focus Spring 2020: A Cursed Blessing of …

Grameen Fabrics and Fashion (Ltd) has manufactured 20,000 PPE gowns and supplied them to hospitals and medical centres to help ensure the safety and protection of doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals.

The country’s capital market was mainly driven by pharmaceuticals and chemicals sector in March following investors’ increased participation in share transactions.

The Bangladesh Mobile Phone Manufacturing Association (BMPMA) has sought its share in the government-declared stimulus package to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.

A greater number of people from the low-income group are now going to super shops, as supermarkets maintain better hygiene and social distancing standards than smaller general shops

Long closure to cause huge losses to bourses, government

Informal Sector Industry Skills Council (ISISC) today demanded of the government to create an emergency fund for small entrepreneurs and labourers and provide emergency loans with lower interest rate amid coronavirus outbreak.