Bangladesh Sees Remittances Jump 26 Percent

Siddique Islam - AHN South Asia Correspondent

Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) - Bangladesh expatriates sent home a record $4.827 billion in the first eight months of the current fiscal year, marking a 26.23 percent growth over the same period last year. "The upward trend of inward remittances continued in the month of February," a senior official with the Bangladesh Bank (BB), the country's central bank, told AHN in Dhaka. [Read more]