DHAKA, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) — IPFF disbursed 20 million USD from its on-lending component to M/S Baraka Patenga Power Limited at Patenga in Chittagong through its PFIs United Commercial Bank Limited (USD 14.04 million) and Trust Bank Limited (USD 5.87 million). In its 2nd phase of operation this is the largest amount of money that […]

  DHAKA, Oct. 31 (nsnewswire) — In the first two months of the current 2013-14 fiscal year the country’s trade deficit narrowed by about 11 percent year on year to 790 million U.S. dollars, showed officials data Thursday.    According to statistics of the central bank of Bangladesh, the country’s import payment was 5.783 billion U.S. […]

DHAKA, Oct. 28 (nsnewswire) — The Government of Bangladesh has set up a multi-donor trust fund, the Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF), which acts as a mechanism for large-scale climate change financing in Bangladesh. One of the two windows of BCCRF, the Community Climate Change Project (CCCP) is allocating funds on a competitive basis to non-governmental […]

DHAKA, Oct. 26 (nsnewswire) — The Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, in its latest monthly economic update reveals that the country’s terms of trade have been deteriorating unabated, reflecting a major structural weakness of the economy. The terms of trade, the value of exports relative to that of imports, reached at 70.1 percent in […]