IMF Provisionally Agrees To Loan Bangladesh $4.5B To Shore Up Economy

By Riyad Hossain

The International Monetary Fund announced Wednesday that it had preliminarily agreed to give Bangladesh a U.S. $4.5 billion loan to help its economy stay afloat amid high inflation and challenges posed by climate change. 

The world lending agency had provisionally agreed to a $3.2 billion loan for the...