The reserves recorded at $39.4 billion on Tuesday are equivalent to about 10 months of import payments with $4 billion a month. The coronavirus pandemic has left inward remittances largely unscathed. Bangladesh’s exports rose 0.59 percent year-on-year to $3.91 billion in July. Exports in the first month of the current fiscal year -- July -- was more than in any other month of the last fiscal year. The remittance inflow was disrupted after the coronavirus pandemic upended the world, but it shot up again in April.

Source: bd News24 September 01, 2020 11:03 UTC