Greece's parliament on Thursday passed legislation on a second batch of reforms needed to help unlock a huge international bailout for the country's stricken economy.

The Finance Minister's estimate that widespread graft takes 2 to 3 percent off the economy has serious implications for the country's development.

The other challenge we will face is how to keep rising inequality in check and how to make basic services accessible to the poor. It will need proper policy, institutions and financing.

Bangladesh received record $15.3 billion in remittance from expatriates working abroad in the last fiscal year.

Financing the 2015-16 fiscal budget will be its biggest challenge, CPD says placing doubts on whether the revenue target can be met.

Government will cut fuel prices in next budget to pass on benefits of the huge fall in its prices in international markets to consumers.

One of the key determinants behind this growth rate has been the accumulation of capital (i.e., investment). The regulatory environment for business in a country can have a direct impact on this...

As the Modi government in India braces the one year milestone, its report card from the consumption and consumer sentiment point of view reveals a mixed picture

Bangladesh’s economy increases by 6.51 percent in the first current fiscal year, up from 6.1 percent last year.

THIS is the time of the year that draws the attention of most people on economic and financial matters. The Finance Ministry and the National

Mark Lowcock, UK Permanent Secretary for Department for International Development (DFID), arrives in Dhaka on a two-day official visit

A mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today forecast that Bangladesh’s economy will grow by 6 percent in the current fiscal year, down from the government’s target of 7.3 percent and World Bank’s 6.2 percent.

The inflation rate in the county has risen by 0.1 percent in February than that of January this year.

THE world needs to stop looking backward. Since the 2008 financial crisis, we have wasted far too much energy trying to return to the days of rapid economic expansion.

A group of foreign diplomats called for a dialogue and compromise among rival political parties to bring an end to the deadly violence.

Japan, the world's third largest economy grows at a slower than expected pace

AN interesting trend can be observed when one takes a look at the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rates of the country during the past few years. If GDP growth rates are plotted according to year, it has a resemblance to a wave, containing a peak and a trough. The dips in the economic growth rates can be seen during election years where rates start to decline in the years preceding the election years.

Energy-starved Pakistanis, their economy battered by chronic fuel and electricity shortages, may soon have to contend with a new resource crisis: major water shortages, the Pakistani government warned this week.

BANGLADESH Shop Owners' Association representing 25 lakh retailers has put across an SOS to political leaders to rescue them from impending ruination.