New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Bangladesh has failed to get any breakthrough at the IMF-World Bank Spring meeting, held earlier this month, on the stalled IMF programme, and no assurance that the expected $3.2 billion in budget support from the World Bank, the ADB, the AIIB, and Japan can be mobilised within the government’s timeline, a local media report said.At a time when tensions in the Strait of Hormuz are already unsettling global energy and freight markets, this ambiguity could not have come …
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New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) Bangladesh, after coming into existence in 1972, moved on path of economic security, upward mobility and drew global investments offering an industry-friendly environment. Lately, that advantage seems to be slipping away and its demographic dividend, its strength is getting weakened as highly polarised environment, radicalism and fundamentalism has lately taken precedence over growth.In past two decades, its education system expanded at an unprecedented pace. Colleges and…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) The increase in India’s rural demand, reflected in figures such as the surge in two-wheeler sales, spells good news for India’s $4.2 trillion economy, which in 2025 passed Japan to emerge as the world’s fourth-largest, media reports said. An article in Singapore’s The Straits Times cites a National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) survey, which found that 42.2 per cent of rural households saw their incomes grow in 2025, with about 80 per cent o…