The Daily Star May 02, 2021
Remittance increased 39 per cent year-on-year to $20 billion in the first 10 months of the current fiscal year.
This has happened for the first time in the history of Bangladesh for the remittance to cross the $20 billion-mark in the first 10 months of any fiscal year.
Even, the country did not register remittance inflow over $20 billion in a single fiscal year in the past, according to data by Bangladesh Bank.
The expatriate Bangladeshis sent home $2.06 billion in April, a year-on-year increase of 89 per cent.