Finance Minister

Controlling inflation Govt mulls market-based foreign currency exchange rates

Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal Wednesday said that the government is considering introducing the market-based foreign currency exchange rates in the country

G for gas, D for diesel, P for petrol The way GDP grew

The politicians are highly obsessed with the GDP of the country. Despite the experts telling them repeatedly to keep away from the delusion of GDP, the politicians do not care about it as there is no ...

Kamal warns developing nations of Chinese loans strapped with debt-trap

Kamal also cautioned Beijing on following a more robust process for evaluating its loans and noted that these kinds of bad loans add strains on indebted emerging markets

Fuel price didn't hike without reason: Finance minister

Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Sunday said the government didn’t increase the price of fuel oil without a valid reason [logic]

Finance minister expects budgetary support from JICA

Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Monday hoped that Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will increase its funding to Bangladesh in a bid to implement vital projects

Govt won't take any funding against country's interest: Finance minister

Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday said that the government would never take any funding from any development partner which would ultimately go against the interest of the country

No necessity of foreign credit now: Finance minister

Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said there is no necessity of foreign loan at this moment and if necessary loan will be taken from International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Finance bill 2022 passed with limits on proposal to whiten black money

Let's play with the proletariat

They work hard but their fates remain unchanged. They catch fish the whole night, struggling on the choppy waves of Padma, but they don’t get a fair price for the fish in the morning—a saga of ...

FM terms flat, land owners in Dhaka 'black money holders'

Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday termed the people who have flats and lands in Dhaka as 'black money holders' for not disclosing the actual costs of their assets [flats and lands] ...

Budget 2022-23: More business-friendly than people-friendly

While the finance minister has acknowledged the pressure of inflation in the new budget, he has not shown any means of relief

Keeping forex reserve stable would be a great challenge: Kamal

Taka is being depreciated against US dollar, and since 1 July of current fiscal year to 6 June, 2022, taka depreciated against US dollar by around 7.9 per cent, said the Finance Minister in his ...

Tk 6.78tr budget proposed for 2022-23 fiscal

Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has proposed a Tk 6.78 trillion (678,064 crore) budget for the 2022-23 fiscal year

Major challenges for next fiscal year

During his budget speech in the parliament on Thursday, the minister said that the government has to be very tactful to tackle these challenges as failure to solve even one of these problems could ...

Allocations for road, railway will increase, bridges decrease

The construction work of Padma Bridge and Karnafuli tunnel is at the final stage and this is why costs of these projects are gradually declining