News Bangladesh Loans: France, Bangladesh sign deal to provide loans, satellite technology during Macron's visit to Dhaka
French President Emmanuel Macron witnessed the signature of a deal Monday to facilitate loans to Bangladesh aimed at infrastructure development, as well as a letter of intent to provide the South Asian country with an earth observation satellite system. This came during Macron's two-day visit to Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, where he met with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, to bolster bilateral relations between the two countries. Bangladesh’s Economic Relations Division signed the agreement with the French Development Agency.
News Bangladesh Loans: Finance minister says Bangladesh ‘scrapped’ IMF loan programme
Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury has said Bangladesh has cancelled its International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan programme, rejecting the lender’s conditions. Khosru made the remarks at the ...
News Bangladesh Loans: Govt to ease loans, services for women entrepreneurs: Muktadir
He also expressed a positive outlook on restructuring the SME Board and increasing women's representation at the policymaking level to ensure maximum opportunities for women entrepreneurs.
News Bangladesh Loans: Default loans in Bangladesh’s banks keep swelling
The government has announced a number of facilities and waivers for big borrowers to pay off their debts in the past few years, but loans defaulted on in the banks have kept rising, with nearly Tk 91.4 billion added in the first quarter of 2022-23.
News Bangladesh Loans: IMF, Bangladesh reach preliminary deal for $4.5B in loans
The International Monetary Fund has reached a preliminary agreement with Bangladesh to provide $4.5 billion to help the country to weather disruptions caused by the war in Ukraine and manage risks from climate change
News Bangladesh Loans: IMF provisionally agrees to loan Bangladesh $4.5B to shore up economy
Bangladesh had requested to borrow money from the Washington-based international lender in July amid rising inflation, slowing growth and declining foreign exchange reserves.
News Bangladesh Loans: Donors, investors dictate Bangladesh fossil fuel policy
Power sector policymakers teamed up with ministry officials to approve coal and LNG-based power projects almost without any evaluation to serve influential people at ...
News Bangladesh Loans: No Chinese debt trap in Bangladesh: Chinese envoy
Amid much discussion on the public domain over crisis-ridden Sri Lanka, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming on Wednesday reiterated that there is no debt trap in Bangladesh. “There is no debt ...
News Bangladesh Loans: Should Bangladesh worry about debt servicing?
Debt servicing has become a rising concern for developing countries in recent times. With sluggish growth worldwide, the havoc caused by Covid-19 over the past three years, and global economic ...
News Bangladesh Loans: Bangladesh not in any Chinese debt trap
Bangladesh is in a much better position to repay the loans, he said. "We are very calculative in terms of foreign loans," Momen said. Bangladesh's major foreign loans are from the World Bank, the ...
News Bangladesh Loans: MD wants to impose the responsibility of WASA’s corruption on consumers: Golam Rahman
The entire world, including Bangladesh, is going through a pandemic at the moment ... The authorities say they are implementing a number of projects with loans from abroad. They have to repay a lot ...
News Bangladesh Loans: Growing Indo-Chinese footprint in Sri Lanka - EDITORIAL
Equally big news is that we have managed to secure a loan swap with Bangladesh or with Pakistan. Not long ago media informed us that the Chinese were providing us with mega loans for projects in ...
