DHAKA, 04 August 2022, (TON): Bangladesh is seeking $2 billion from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank amid efforts to bolster its foreign exchange reserves.
Bangladesh's $416 billion economy has been one of the fastest-growing in the world for years, but rising energy and food prices because of the Russia-Ukraine war have inflated its import bill and the current account deficit.
The government wrote letters to the two lenders seeking $1 billion each, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.
This comes days after Bangladesh's Daily Star newspaper reported that the country wanted $4.5 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), including for budgetary and balance-of-payment support.
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