Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 20 -- Inflationary pressures on Bangladesh economy may intensify in the coming months as the central bank has increased the money supply target for the second-half (H2) of this fiscal year.

The central bank of Bangladesh set a 13 per cent growth of broad money for the fiscal year (FY), 2019-20, up from its July target of 12.50 percent, according to the revised monetary programme, announced by the Bangladesh Bank (BB), on Sunday.

Actually, the BB was forced to enhance the target of broad money supply to the market to meet the government's growing borrowing demand from banking sources. Broad money is a category for measuring the amount of money circulating in an economy.

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