Bangladesh to Raise Policy Rates From Next Week to Fight Prices
Customers browse a market in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh’s central bank plans to increase its policy interest rate by half a percentage point next week, aiming to fight inflation that has surged to its highest level in over a decade, according to the authority’s newly-appointed Governor Ahsan H. Mansur.
A 50-basis point increase will take the policy interest rate to 9%, and Bangladesh Bank plans to tighten it further in the coming months.