Meeting macroeconomic targets biggest challenge in budget: CPD
Meeting macroeconomic targets biggest challenge in budget: CPD

The Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD) said achieving the macroeconomic targets set out in the proposed budget for fiscal year 202627 will be the governments biggest challenge. The organization noted that nearly all macroeconomic indicators are currently under pressure. CPD has described the...

Global uncertainty adds to economic pressure
Global uncertainty adds to economic pressure

Mashrur Arefin, Managing Director of City Bank, believes that restoring business confidence requires not only domestic improvements but also an easing of various global uncertainties. The RussiaUkraine war, the economic aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, the recent crisis in the Middle East and...

Challenges continue to mount
Challenges continue to mount

The government appears unable to free itself from a succession of challenges. Since assuming office with what many describe as a mountain of burdens, it has faced one crisis after another. Some of these problems are said to be of the interim governments own making, while others stem from natural...

Mega budget built on borrowing despite economic strains
Mega budget built on borrowing despite economic strains

The first national budget of Prime Minister Tarique Rahmans BNP-led coalition government is nearly finalized. Barring any major changes, the proposed Tk 9.38 lakh crore budget for the 202627 fiscal year is set to be presented in Parliament on 11 June. The government is preparing the budget at a...

US ‘running out of cards’ in economic standoff with Iran
US ‘running out of cards’ in economic standoff with Iran

Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said the US has exhausted much of its leverage in an economic confrontation with Iran, arguing that Tehran still holds significant cards to play, Tasnim News Agency reported. In a post on his X account on Sunday night, Qalibaf outlined the...