Reveals survey People now live longer than in the past. Life expectancy in the country rose to 70.4 years in 2013 from 69.4 a year ago, says a new survey of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). It was 65.2 years in 2005, according to
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WB launches Bangladesh enterprise survey
World Bank has launched the Enterprise Survey in Bangladesh to assess the business environment and investment climate barriers that limit economic growth. The survey is part of a global project in South Asia and would include interviews with over 1,550 manufacturing and services companies.
US business team urged to invest in infrastructural dev
The country’s businesses on Sunday urged the US business delegation to invest in power, gas and energy, and communication sector saying that infrastructural development was important for economic growth. The country’s businesses on Sunday urged the US
Restore political stability for economic growth: WB
Breaking out of low investment trap biggest immediate challenge, it says The World Bank on Saturday said Bangladesh must restore political stability for the sake of its economic growth. The recent political violence is hampering the country’s investment opportunity and development prospects, said officials of
Prolonged unrest is weighing on ecomonic growth: Moody’s
The ongoing political unrest and violent general strikes are weighing on Bangladesh’s economic growth by heightening the vulnerability and threatening to derail reform progress, said Moody’s in its latest credit outlook. The US-based credit rating agency in the report released on Thursday said the GDP growth of the country would fall to 5.9 per cent ... Read more