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  ADB lowers GDP growth projection for Bangladesh

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:09am on September 15, 2020

  The Asian Development Bank on Tuesday lowered its GDP growth projection for Bangladesh in the current fiscal year 2020-2021 to 6.8 per cent from its...

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  Mustafa Kamal censures CPD for GDP rate observation

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:49pm on August 17, 2020

  Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Monday censured the Centre for Policy Dialogue for the CPD’s observation that the government’s estimate of 5.24 per cent...

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  GDP growth estimated without considering pandemic fallout

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:52pm on August 16, 2020

  The Centre for Policy Dialogue on Sunday said that the government made the provisional gross domestic product (GDP) growth estimates of 5.24 per cent for...

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  GDP growth 5.2pc in FY20: BBS

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:59pm on August 11, 2020

  The country’s economy grew by 5.24 per cent in the last fiscal year 2019-2020 despite an unprecedented blow to economy in the last quarter of...

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  Disparity widens in Bangladesh as per capita income goes up

  Jasim Uddin | Updated at 02:01pm on August 11, 2020

  The per capita income in the country grew to $2,064 in the 2019–20 fiscal year from $1,909 in 2018–19, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of...

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  ADB puts FY20 Bangladesh growth at 4.5pc

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:57am on June 18, 2020

  The Asian Development Bank on Thursday said that Bangladesh GDP would grow by 4.5 per cent in the current fiscal year 2019-2020, revising its original...

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  Kamal sets lofty 8.2pc growth target amid pandemic crisis

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:35pm on June 11, 2020

  Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday set yet another ambitious economic growth target of 8.2 per cent in the budget for the next financial...

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  Kamal sets lofty 8.2pc growth target amid pandemic crisis

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 07:11pm on June 11, 2020

  Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday set yet another ambitious economic growth target of 8.2 per cent in the budget for the next financial...

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  Usual budget with 6pc deficit likely tomorrow

  Shakhawat Hossain | Updated at 11:58pm on June 09, 2020

  Thanks to the COVID-19 crisis, the government is set to announce the new budget with a deficit of 6 per cent of the GDP for...

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  World Bank slashes growth projection to 1.6pc

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 09:42pm on June 09, 2020

  The World Bank has lowered its gross domestic product growth projection rate for Bangladesh drastically to 1.6 per cent for the current fiscal year 2019-2020...