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Article: Investment, interest rate main challenges to boosting economy: Muhith.
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- UNB - United News of Bangladesh
- Article date:
- July 16, 2009
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Dhaka, July 16 (UNB) - Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday identified investment and bank interest rate as the two main challenges that need to be taken care of to strengthen the economy.
"We'll have to make progress in the two areas," he told a seminar on `Exchange Rate Management under Floating Regime in Bangladesh' at Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS).
Policy Resource Programme of BIDS in association with `Manusher Jonno' organized the seminar to review the country's foreign exchange policy in light of the floating exchange rate introduced in 2003.
Former Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Salehuddin Ahmed, economists, ...