BSS, Dhaka :Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) will conduct a Rural Credit Survey across the country to undertake further development programmes and disburse agricultural credit timely and in an effective way.With this in view, the BBS inaugurated a two-day training programme for the supervising officers at the Parisankhyan Bhaban here today. After the training programme, the countrywide Rural Credit Survey will begin for the second time on January 26 an end on February 9.Under the programme, the BBS with its...
Xinhua, Hanoi :Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao urged Vietnam Wednesday to accelerate disbursement of ADB loans.The visiting ADB governor made the appeal at a meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Hanoi, according to ADB press release.Nakao said ADB is willing to assist Vietnam in boosting infrastructure development, especially transportation, energy, healthcare as well as carrying out reform in state- owned enterprises (SOEs).Vietnam’s inflation rate has decreased sharply from more than 20 percent in August 2011...
Xinhua, Vienna :The world oil market share of OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) declined while non-OPEC oil supply...
AFP, London :ARC Ratings, five credit ratings agencies mainly from emerging markets, launched Thursday a rival to the sector’s main players including Fitch and Moody’s.Pitching itself as a new international credit ratings agency, ARC hopes also to take clients from Standard & Poor’s (S&P), which along with Fitch and Moody’s, faced heavy criticism following the financial crisis.ARC said it would introduce new financial risk ratings to sit alongside long- established debt grades such as the top triple A rating. But...
Xinhua, Dubai :The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is expected to attract 14.4 billion U.S. dollars foreign direct investments in 2014, representing a 20 percent year-on-year increase, undersecretary for the Ministry of Economy and Foreign Trade said here Thursday.Speaking ahead of the Annual Investment Meeting 2014, Abdulla Al-Saleh said the UAE benefited a lot in 2013 from global economic recovery, its liberal and open economy, and Dubai’s winning of the bid to host the World Expo in 2020.The expected growth in...
AFP, Tokyo :A Japanese government report Friday said the economy was “recovering”, its first use of the word since the...
AFP, Brussels :EU lawmakers put the Troika under the microscope this week, wanting to know how and why the trio of international creditors imposed eurozone debt bailouts at such high cost to the ordinary public.Transparency, accountability, why were forecasts missed and more austerity imposed when unemployment was soaring, European Parliament deputies asked at a series of sometimes testy hearings with top Troika officials.“For many people in Europe, the Troika’s measures were imposed by outsiders … that is why there needs...
Xinhua, Madrid :With just under a week before the FITUR international tourism exhibition’s opening in the Spanish capital city, Taleb...
bdnews24.com :Implementation of budget for the current fiscal is the major challenge before the new government, says former adviser to...
UNB, Dhaka :Bangladesh Railway has incurred a loss of over Tk 8.25 crore in two fiscal years (FY07 and FY08) for realising license fee at lower rate from Grameen Phone, a leading mobile phone operator of the country.Although the Land Management Policy 2006 fixed license fee at Tk 335 and Tk 223 per square feet of land in divisional towns and other areas respectively, Bangladesh Railway realised license fee at the rates of Tk 16, Tk 8 and Tk 6...
bdnews24.com :Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has said facilitation of transit and transshipment facilities to each other could help South Asian...
UNB, Dhaka :Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to find out possible ways to promote bilateral trade to the annual level of US$ 500 million, which is now about US$ 100 million, through establishing smoother connectivity.The agreement was reached at the seventh meeting of the Bangladesh-Myanmar Joint Trade Commission (JTC) held in Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar, from January 14-15.Issues related to border trade, cooperation in agriculture, food, fisheries, power and mineral resources sectors; shipping arrangement; exchange of business delegation; participation...