Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today said the GDP growth of the country would be higher than the government's estimate, not only the World Bank's projection.

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has said today that Bangladesh’s GDP growth will be no more than 2.5 percent this fiscal year, and that poverty will soar by 35 percent.

Around 0.2 per cent to 0.4 per cent of Bangladesh’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate may be lost due to Covid-19 outbreak, forecasts Asian Development Bank.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal says Bangladesh could lose 1.1 percent of its GDP growth due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has criticised Centre Policy Dialogue (CPD) for its remarks that the ratio of private investment to GDP has been hovering around 23 per cent for the last few years.

The Asian Development Bank projects 8 percent GDP growth for Bangladesh for the current fiscal year. The multilateral lender said if Bangladesh can achieve the growth rate, it will be the highest in Asia.

World Bank (WB) is ready to help Bangladesh increase growth to double digit and it would provide all kinds of support for this, newly-appointed World Bank country director for Bangladesh and Bhutan says.

Bangladesh recorded the highest economic growth among a list of 26 countries in the last 10 years, according to The Spectator Index.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, in his budget speech, has projected the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate at 8.2 per cent in the proposed national budget for 2019-20 fiscal.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi once said that growth that is not inclusive is not meaningful but just economic figures. And this proclamation seems to be gradually becoming relevant for Bangladesh.

South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM), a non-profit research organisation, terms the recent economic growth of Bangladesh as “puzzling”, saying that the GDP growth mismatched with the data and various indicators of the economy.

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) questions the current year's growth estimate of 8.13 percent citing incoherency in various indicators of the economy.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has rightly stressed the need for research and development in order to maintain Bangladesh's current

Scientists and researchers have responsibilities to find out sustainable ways to maintain Bangladesh's current economic and GDP growth, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said yesterday.

On April 4, 2019, the World Bank presented its latest economic forecast that Bangladesh's economy will grow at 7.3 percent in the

Bangladesh economy is going to cross a record 8 percent growth mark in the current fiscal year, powered by high performance in manufacturing and service sectors, the finance minister has claimed.