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MNA Business Desk: The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) will release the Global Competitiveness Report 2019 (GCR 2019) and present the findings of the Bangladesh Business Environment Study 2019 (which has contributed to this report) on Wednesday. The Global Competitiveness Report is the flagship publication of the World Economic Forum (WEF), where CPD is the partner organisation which conducts the Bangladesh chapter of the study. The Global Competitiveness Report 2019 will provide relative rankings of 141 countries based on the perception of 12,879 leading entrepreneurs and business executives taking part in the surveys conducted in the aforesaid countries. The GCR ...

MNA Business Desk: The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) on Tuesday has questioned the authenticity of the data used in calculating a high growth estimate as it does not match with the growth of key macroeconomic indicators. On March 19, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics forecast the GDP (gross domestic product) growth to be 8.13 per cent for fiscal year 2019-20. This is for the first time in the country’s history that the growth above 8.0 per cent has been projected for a fiscal year. At a programme to review the first 100 days of the current government on Tuesday, ...

MNA Exclusive Desk: Remained focused on having a ‘bilateral’ solution to the Rohingya crisis, Bangladesh is very close to reaching a repatriation agreement with Myanmar, said foreign secretary Shahidul Haque on Saturday. “Currently, we’re focusing on signing a bilateral agreement for the return of Rohingyas…we’re very close in terms of reaching a retu rn agreement with Myanmar authorities,” he said. The foreign secretary was addressing a dialogue titled ‘Addressing Rohingya Crisis: Options for Bangladesh’ arranged by Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) at a city hotel. He, however, said if the bilateral arrangement does not work finally, Bangladesh has other options ...