Dhaka, Feb. 12 -- Current-account surplus in Bangladesh last December more than trebled from the November tally, the central bank disclosed Monday, although the country's balance of payments goes burgeoning.

As such, with the overall balance staying in the negative territory, the pain of financial-account paucity still continues.

The deficit in the financial account, another key component of the balance of payments (BoP), stood at $5.4 billion.

The BoP summarises the economic transactions by a country with the rest of the world.

The typical feature of a financial account was that it used to dominate the overall BoP as it belonged to huge surpluses in the past.

Economists believe the current-account surplus is mainly due to tightfiste...