Regional & International Economy

Parliament on Monday passed the Finance Bill 2020 reducing the lock-in period of investing black money in the share market.

Oil prices rose in early trade on Friday, extending gains from the previous day on optimism about recovering fuel demand worldwide, despite surges in coronavirus infections in some US states and indications of a revival in US crude production.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) retained its first place ranking in the 2020 Aid Transparency Index (ATI), an independent measurement of aid transparency released on Wednesday at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.

Expatriates Welfare and Oversees Employment Secretary says the number of migrant workers who returned home amid the coronavirus crisis is not statistically very significant

The government today signed a loan agreement of US$ 250 million (budget support) with the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank Group to finance the “Second Jobs Development Policy Credit (DPC-2)” program.

The Jatiya Oikyafront in a statement today came down heavily on the government for placing a “debt-dependent” national budget for the 2020-21 fiscal and termed it a budget of bankruptcy.

Chinese government has granted duty-free access to 97 percent Bangladeshi products to its market from July 1 while Dhaka termed it as a success of Bangladesh’s economic diplomacy.

Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows are forecast to decrease by up to 40 per cent in 2020, and further by 5 to 10 per cent in 2021, before recovering in 2022, said a United Nations report Tuesday.

There are 75.7 million marginalized people in the country

THE US tumbled further in a ranking of most competitive world economies, dragged down by the weight of President Donald Trump’s trade wars.