Talks with IMF for new loan to continue in Bangkok
8 October 2026
Talks with the International Monetary Fund on a new loan programme worth up to $5 billion are set to continue next week in Thailand on the sidelines of the 2026 annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank.
8 October 2026
Manufacturing, services lift Apr-Jun GDP growth to 4.6%
8 October 2026
Industrial production grew 6.52 percent in the April-June quarter, compared with just 0.92 percent in the same period a year earlier
8 October 2026
6.2cr people one shock away from poverty: WB
7 October 2026
Nearly 6.2 crore people in Bangladesh are currently living just one economic shock away from falling below the poverty line, the World Bank has warned, as persistently high inflation and severe energy shortages reverse years of hard-won economic gains.
7 October 2026
Time for urgent, bold reforms
7 October 2026
Bangladesh needs urgent and bold reforms in the financial, energy and revenue sectors to arrest the economic slowdown, restore investor confidence and create jobs, said the World Bank yesterday.
7 October 2026
Growth to stay below 4% until FY28 on energy, banking woes
7 October 2026
Bangladesh is yet again set to register weak economic growth of 3.4 percent in the current fiscal year, according to the World Bank, marking a fourth straight year of slowing growth amid a deepening energy crisis, financial sector vulnerabilities and global uncertainties.
7 October 2026
Banking rot, energy crisis to choke growth: WB
6 October 2026
Escalating conflict in the Middle East has exacerbated pre-existing domestic vulnerabilities
6 October 2026
442MW Rampal solar power plant to get nod
6 October 2026
The government is set to construct a 442MW solar power plant at a cost of Tk 2,498 crore on the remaining land acquired for the coal-fired power plant in Rampal.
6 October 2026
Surplus liquidity at banks past Tk 4 lakh crore
5 October 2026
Surplus liquidity in the banking sector surged 45 percent over the past year to cross Tk 4 lakh crore, but the vast majority of the funds are parked in government treasury bills and bonds rather than trickling into private sector credit, according to a central bank report.
5 October 2026
Bangladesh Bank Reserve Heist: Int’l payment system now slower, costlier
It has been four years since a band of hackers broke into this Bangladesh Bank’s account with the New York Fed with the intent to pull off what would have been the biggest cyber heist in history.
3 February 2020
The billion-dollar hit job
The way unknown hackers hatched plans to steal money from the Bangladesh Bank’s reserves with the New York Fed using the most sophisticated banking and payment channels as well their near-perfect preparation and timing will render many detective stories and Hollywood movies average.
3 February 2020
Widening job market a challenging prospect
The government’s target to create 1.13 crore new jobs in the next five years does pose a significant challenge, despite the country’s high economic growth rate, according to a revised five-year plan from the planning ministry.
28 January 2020
Newly confident Bangladesh to flag off Development Forum
There was a time when Bangladeshi finance ministers would land in Paris with a briefcase in hand to seek financial assistance from donors.
27 January 2020
World Bank sees headwinds ahead for Bangladesh
The World Bank yesterday praised the progress Bangladesh achieved in recent years but apprehends a struggle ahead for the low tax revenue and banking sector’s poor condition.
26 January 2020
Docking bad loans has now become critical
Age is the price of wisdom, it is often said. And an audience with the immediate past finance minister, AMA Muhith, calls to mind that saying.
24 January 2020
Banking sector poised to derail growth momentum for Bangladesh economy
The current vulnerable state of the banking sector steeped in default loans poses the biggest danger to sustenance of Bangladesh’s tremendous growth momentum, said the International Monetary Fund.
22 January 2020
‘We are a nation in a hurry’
Halfway through an interview at the Planning Commission, Planning Minister MA Mannan is asked about the logic behind the inordinate number of projects that are in implementation at any given moment.
19 January 2020
WB-Funded Projects/Programmes 2016-20: Only half the targets met
Bangladesh could achieve only a little more than half of the targets set by the World Bank Group for 84 projects and programmes in the last four years, says a draft performance review report of the World Bank Group.
19 January 2020
Payra coal power plant takes off
Coal-fired Payra power plant in Patuakhali began test production yesterday, making it the first large-scale plant to come into operation since the Awami League swept to power a decade ago.
13 January 2020
Private banks ready for Basel III
Most of the private banks have raised their capital base in line with the Basel III requirements three months prior to the deadline set to reach the global regulatory standard.
12 January 2020
Dedicated Rail Bridge Over Jamuna: Work yet to start, cost up by 33pc
The project cost of building a rail bridge over the Jamuna river has increased by Tk 3,216 crore even before the start of physical work.
9 January 2020
Farm mechanisation gets a shot in the arm
Farmers may get 50 to 70 percent incentive while buying agricultural machinery and also avail low-cost loans, as the government looks to pivot to farm mechanisation amid rising costs and growing labour shortage.
8 January 2020
‘It’s not possible to do everything overnight’
The man with the plan, is the impression one walks away with after an audience with Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal. Later, one is invariably met with the question: was he being a little too optimistic and naive?
2 January 2020
Govt’s solid plan for single-digit interest rate
Bangladesh Bank is set to raise the loan-deposit ratio by another 1 percentage point as it looks to reduce the interest rate for manufacturing sector and increase lendable fund of banks.
29 December 2019
Budget deficit goes over 5pc boundary
Budget deficit, which is when spending exceeds revenue, is set to cross the sensible perimeter of 5 percent of GDP in fiscal 2018-19 for the first time in 12 years on the back of ebbing collections of the tax administrator.
28 December 2019
Terminal to match aspirations
First impressions are the most lasting, it is often said. And in case of cities and countries, it is often airports that provides that.
27 December 2019
Shrinking revenue a growing worry
Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right, American author Sherrilyn Kenyon once said.
27 December 2019
Rohingya Relocation to Bhashan Char: Govt plans facilities for UN, aid agencies
The government has planned to construct a four-storey building on Bhashan Char for the UN and aid agency representatives to ensure effective monitoring of humanitarian activities for one lakh Rohingya refugees to be relocated to the island from Cox’s Bazar.
16 December 2019
Another MRT line in the offing
The government yesterday signed a loan agreement with the Asian Development Bank to get the long-cherished MRT Line-5 (southern route) project going.
11 December 2019