Bangladesh, May 25 -- Foreign aid disbursement and fresh commitments to Bangladesh remained significantly below fiscal year targets during the current financial year, while the country's external debt repayment burden continued to rise, according to a report released by the Economic Relations Division (ERD) on Saturday.
Against a full-year foreign aid disbursement target of $7.868 billion, Bangladesh received only $4.236 billion during the July-April period, achieving 53.84 per cent of the annual target.
The latest figure also represents a sharp year-on-year decline.
During the same ten-month period of the previous fiscal year, development
partners had disbursed $5.163 billion, indicating that aid disbursement has fallen by around 18 per...