Bangladesh, Dec. 30 -- The remittance inflow remains to be one of the few silver linings in an otherwise not-so-buoyant economy at the moment.
The remittance earnings, according to a report published in The Financial Express, are set to be over $18 billion at the end of the current calendar year, representing more than 18 per cent growth over that of 2018. The inward inflow is projected to be over $20 billion during the current financial year 2019-20.
The growth of remittance inflow in 2019 is mainly attributed to the depreciation of taka and the cash incentives offered to remitters at the rate of 2.0 per cent against the remitted amounts.
Such attribution seems to be true because the remittance inflow has recorded a notable growth thoug...