The Dhaka University held a meeting with the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh and World Bank about issues, including the implementation of different development projects at the DU with the financial assistance from the WB at DU vice-chancellor鈥檚 meeting room on Sunday...
The World Bank predicted that economic growth in Bangladesh would decline to 4 per cent in the current financial year due to recent flood and uncertainty in the production sector.
THE World Bank measures per capita national income using the Atlas method. The total national income (GNI) of a country in local currency is converted into US dollars. In this case, the average exchange rate for three years is adjusted, accounting for inflation and fluctuations in the exchange rate. There is often a difference...
Sri Lanka said on Monday it had secured a new $200 million World Bank loan to bolster economic recovery, the first foreign funding since leftist president Anura Kumara Dissanayake won elections.
IT IS promising that the government has reconstituted an inter-agency task force meant to bring back money that has been illegally taken abroad. In January 2023, the taskforce was formed by the deposed Awami League government but remained ineffective in repatriating stolen funds. In what follows, the reconstitution of the taskforce is a right step forward...
The advisory council of the interim government will hold another round of dialogue with the political parties before the six reform commissions begin their work in full swing.
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Sunday said that the World Bank and its private sector investment wing International Finance Corporation would provide loans under certain conditions to help the interim government carry out reforms in the financial sector...
World Bank will provide $300 million to support the Bangladesh Clean Air Project, aiming to strengthen air quality management and reduce emissions from key sectors...
World Bank Group president Ajay Banga on Thursday said that the global lender would provide $3.5 billion to support reform initiatives of Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government.
Industries adviser Adilur Rahman Khan on Wednesday said that the government was working to make the small and medium enterprises more active and vibrant...
Shipping, jute and textiles adviser Brigadier General (retired) M Sakhawat Hussain on Wednesday called upon the World Bank to invest in Bangladesh鈥檚 jute and textiles sectors and shipbuilding industry...
The World Bank offered assistance to the Anti-Corruption Commission in collecting documentary evidence for the recovery of laundered money...
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission on Sunday said that it would upgrade its the surveillance system for a better monitoring of the market and the commission sought support from the World Bank to improve the system...
THE Bureau of Statistics has come to be criticised and its calculation of nationally, and internationally, important figures questioned for years during the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of the Awami League, overthrown on August 5 through a student-mass uprising, for the manipulation of data that has been nothing short of deceit...
The World Bank on Thursday said that it could lend around $2.3 billion to Bangladesh to help the country to carry out critical reforms for improving governance, transparency and accountability.
World Bank is ready to be part of key economic reforms of Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government, a visiting top official of the multilateral lender said on Thursday.
The World Bank will provide support in reforming banking and other sectors in Bangladesh, finance and commerce adviser Salehuddin Ahmed said on Thursday...
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Tuesday said that they expected easy and implementable action plans from the World Bank with its new loans.
The World Bank on Tuesday committed $2 billion loan assistance to support the reform agenda of the interim government led by professor Muhammad Yunus.
The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank on Sunday pledged a combined loan of $2.5 billion to Bangladesh to support reforms in the country鈥檚 banking and...
IN THE 21st century, demographic transition, not an esoteric fact any more, has become a critical issue for policymakers and economists worldwide. The process affects every aspect of society, from the labour market and economic growth to healthcare systems and social security to the extent that supranational organisations such as the World Bank...
A SLIGHT decrease in prices, largely because of an improved supply and a halt in extortion on highways and at markets, comes as a relief amidst the food inflation that has pushed the poor and low-income people into a tight spot. Prices of vegetables decreased by Tk 10鈥�20 a kilogram in the capital on August 9 while prices of chicken and eggs also decreased...
THE International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Asian Development Bank are complicit in the gross human rights violations and death of democracy in Bangladesh. They continued to supply financial blood line to the regime, well-documented for its corruptions, human rights violations 鈥� such as forced disappearances and tortures...
The World Bank food security update that has put Bangladesh in the red zone for a year until May 2024 suggests the worsening food insecurity in Bangladesh. The update says that persistent high food inflation has pushed the large majority of low- and fixed-income people into food insecurity. Bangladesh is placed in the red zone with 18 other countries...
The persistent high food price has kept the country in the red zone for the past one year until May 2024 in the food security update of the World Bank.
More than 100 countries, including China, are at risk of entering a 鈥榤iddle-income trap鈥� and failing to become wealthy nations, the World Bank said Thursday as it unveiled a 鈥榗omprehensive roadmap鈥� to reach high-income status...
INADEQUATE budgetary allocation for social protection that a recent World Bank research has reported indicates the government鈥檚 exclusionary development policy. The report says that the social protection expenditure in Bangladesh is the lowest in South Asia. Bangladesh spends 2 per cent of its gross domestic product...
A new World Bank report has found that social protection expenditure in Bangladesh is the lowest in South Asia...
The World Bank鈥檚 board of executive directors approved $650 million to help Bangladesh invest in infrastructure critical for developing the bay terminal deep seaport...
The World Bank on Saturday said that its board approved disbursement of $900 million for two projects in Bangladesh.