It was 2.14 percent in the same period last year

Govt should promote workforce training to advance AI skills

For Bangladesh, export diversification has become an existential demand.

Over the past few years, the economy has been facing tough challenges.

The existing social protection framework is fundamentally broken.

Growth stalls in agriculture, construction, as input costs and employment decline

The decline was mainly driven by a notable fall in non-food inflation

Credit crunch, investment fall pose threat to growth

He listened to their concerns and assured them that the issues raised would be addressed

A year on, interim government stabilises economy but slows crucial reform initiatives

When we hear the word engineering, Germany naturally comes to mind. Mention technology, and Japan emerges. Talk about innovation and Silicon Valley in the United States takes centre stage.

If macroeconomic stabilisation has been the interim government's main success, revenue collection is its most glaring failure

What the economy needs more than emergency repair is democratisation.

One year into its tenure, the interim government has a record of stark contradictions. While it successfully pulled the economy back from the brink of collapse, it has profoundly failed to restore the confidence of investors, leaving the economic future in a state of vulnerable uncertainty.

Bangladesh Bank has held its key policy repo rate steady at 10 percent for the first half of the current fiscal year, reaffirming its commitment to a tight monetary stance aimed at curbing persistent inflation, weak private investment, and growing uncertainty over global trade.

Diversifying Bangladesh’s export basket has been a high-priority policy objective for many years.

Some banks are simply non-viable and suffer from inherent governance problems.

There is ample evidence showing that both domestic and foreign direct investment (FDI) have a significant positive effect on economic growth.

The finance ministry has identified seven major challenges including tight monetary and fiscal policies, taken to tame elevated inflation levels for more than three years, in next fiscal year that may increase unemployment.

The estimate is almost close to the projection by the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) 3.8 percent for the year.