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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...
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Bangladesh poverty rate rises to 35pc amid COVID-19 fallout: CPD
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:07pm on June 07, 2020
Bangladesh’s national poverty rate rose to 35 per cent in 2020 from 24.3 per cent in 2016 due to the adverse impacts of the coronavirus...
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GDP slashed to 11-year low at 5.2pc in outgoing FY20
Shakhawat Hossain | Updated at 12:17am on May 06, 2020
The country’s gross domestic product has been revised downward to provisional 5.2 per cent in the outgoing fiscal year due to the COVID-19 outbreak, said...
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Bangladesh GDP growth to hit 40-yr low at 2pc this FY: IMF
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 02:16pm on April 15, 2020
The International Monetary Fund has predicted a bleak economic prospect for Bangladesh, setting the country’s gross domestic product growth at only 2 per cent for...
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Bangladesh GDP growth to be 2-3pc in 2019-20: World Bank
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:28am on April 13, 2020
The World Bank on Sunday predicted that Bangladesh’s GDP growth would plunge to 2.0–3.0 per cent in the 2019-20 fiscal year amid the declining garment...
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Bangladesh may lose up to 0.4pc of GDP: ADB
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:19pm on April 03, 2020
The Asian Development Bank has estimated that the spillovers from global coronavirus pandemic could cost Bangladesh about 0.2 per cent to 0.4 per cent of...
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