Dhaka, March 16 -- The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) underscored the need for taking quick and decisive measures to boost the economic recovery.

In its latest quarterly review, the MCCI observed that Bangladesh's robust economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic has been interrupted by several factors such as the war in Russia-Ukraine, resultant supply-chain disruptions, global oil-and food-price spikes, slowdown in external demand, weak remittance inflow, rise in inflation, negative current account balance, depreciation of the taka and a decline in foreign exchange reserves, it said in a press release.

To overcome the pressure, the government took quick and decisive measures to address the economic fallout, it ...