Dhaka, Sept. 28 -- Bangladesh's export earnings from services have been on a decline over the last three years after a pickup even in the post-pandemic fiscal year, officials say, largely for ignoring a vast potential.

Notwithstanding an impressive income in the fiscal year (FY) 2021-22, just after the pandemic Covid-19 attack, the highest job-absorbing sector failed to see a liftoff in its foreign income, they said Friday.

Over the last three years between FY2023 and FY2025, the export earnings from the services sector were far lower than that in the post-Covid year FY2022.

Bangladesh earned US$8.89 billion by exporting different services in FY2022 to overseas markets but its income remained on a downturn in the following three years,...