Economy

Bangladesh is among the top five fastest growing global economies thanks to export-oriented industry-led stable macroeconomic growth while the country needs more private sector investment alongside technological and human resources development to attain...

U.S. private employers added 129,000 jobs in March, below economists’ expectations and the lowest since September 2017, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday. Economists surveyed by Reuters had forecast the...

The US economy created the lowest number of jobs for a year-and-a-half in February, well below forecasts. Just 20,000 new jobs were created last month against expectations of a 180,000 increase, official figures...

Bangladesh has shown keen interest to export its quality products like readymade garments, pharmaceuticals, jute and jute goods, and leather items to African nation Kenya. Dhaka is agreed to send a business delegation...

The IMF said it expected Sri Lanka’s growth to improve to 3.5 percent in 2019.

Chinese exports saw the steepest fall in three years in February, according to the latest trade figures. Exports from China plunged 20.7% from a year earlier, as its trade war with the US...

Venezuela’s oil exports sank 40 percent in the first full month after the beginning of U.S. sanctions designed to oust Socialist President Nicolas Maduro, according to data from state-run oil firm PDVSA and...

Zimbabwe started on Friday to trade its new currency, the RTGS dollar, two days after the central bank announced measures to try and resolve a chronic monetary crisis. On Wednesday, the bank unveiled...

International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said the employment rate in Bangladesh and other countries in the region exceeded the global average and was expected to remain so in the coming years in view...

China’s economy grew at its slowest pace in almost three decades in 2018, losing more steam in the last quarter as it battles to quell massive debt and a US trade war, official...