Dhaka, Jan. 26 -- Foreign-aid disbursement to Bangladesh dropped US$3.53 billion in the first half of the current fiscal year as all its development partners ramped down bankrolling its uplift recipe, official statistics show.

Of the amount received in the July-December period, $3.26 billion came as loans and $270.64 million as grants, according to the provisional data available with the Economic Relations Division (ERD).

The country received $4.06 billion in the period of the last fiscal year, which reflects a 13.08-percent decline in the inflow of foreign resources, with an actual drop of $531.38 million.

The ERD published its monthly report on disbursement of foreign resources on Sunday which also found a 67.11-percent drop in new c...