The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a great economic loss, which was more severe in the first half of2020.The whole world included Bangladesh has still faced an unpredictable economic loss because of this pandemic disease. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook Update (June-2020) has anticipated negative global growth approximately - 4.9% in 2020.
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The pandemic has caused huge unemployment around 305 million full-time jobs across the world. Bangladesh’s scenario is not different of that. The GDP growth has averaged 8% during the past few years but this rate has been disrupted by the outbreak of covid-19.The rate of poverty has also increased and over two million people could be added to the ranks of the poor in 2020. The unemployment rate of Bangladesh is also increasing and now ranges from 10 million to 15 million due to covid-19.If we see the RMG sector of Bangladesh which is the largest source of foreign currency earnings has also been disrupted. Total export earnings and export from the RMG sector amounted to USD 30.18 billion and USD 25.71 billion respectively during July 2019 to May 2020.
Then the second biggest source of income for Bangladesh is remittance. Bangladesh received USD 18.20 billion remittances in the fiscal year of 2019-20 but due to the outbreak of the pandemic it is forcing our migrant workers to return to Bangladesh and thus the remittance amount in this year has decreased. And also there are many losses in our education sector, travelling sector, SME sector, banking sector and so on.
But all of around bad news, the good news is that Our Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced financial assistance of around Tk 73000 crore in five packages and also a good amount of cash incentives in this fiscal year. So, if all of us work with our Government then we will fix up our economic recession.