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| This page has been built to help you update your knowledge on business, economics, and development issues. The page will be helpful to academics, researchers, policy makers who are particularly interested in these areas and especially in Bangladesh economy. -Monzur Hossain |
| FEATURED TOPICS: India talks down to its neighbors [read article from ASIA TIMES] New Soaring Oil Prices-- A Structural Phenomenon?(from AFP) Software glitch: Why China may soon surpass India Asean urged to speed up economic integration to face China, India China's agricultural sector opening further There are many ways to be 'best' On Bangladesh The puzzle of Bangladesh: Philip Bowring [International Herald Tribune] The New York Times slanders Bangladesh again! [Writes Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed] Bangladesh beats India in social progress Great prospects of agro-based industry A permanent solution to floods For friendship Bangladesh should look East |
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| BANGLADESH ECONOMY AT A GLANCE (JULY 2004) |
| * GDP growth rate: 5.4% ( 2005) * Inflation rate 6.9% (May, 2005) * Money supply growth 16.3% (Yearly, July 04-May 05 * Domestic credit 17.8% (Yearly, July 04-May 05) * Export Increase 15.0% (July - May, 2005) *Exchange Rate 63-64 Tk./USD (May 05) *International Reserve 2747 m. dolllar (May 04) * Per capita income 421 USD *Investment/GDP ratio 23.58% * ICOR 4.28 |
| Economic features on Bangladesh: |
| MONZUR HOSSAIN'S FINANCE PAGE |
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| UPDATE ON JAPAN News on Japan |
| Bangladeshi industry- needs governance, not protection - Prof. Wahiduddin Mahmud |
| QUARTERLY ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: BANGLADESH (June, 2005) [ADB Publication] |