The International Monetary Fund will give decision on providing the next two tranches of its US$4.7 billion loan package for Bangladesh amounting to $1.3 billion on Wednesday.
鈥楢 series of meetings were held in Washington between Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Ahsan H Mansur and senior IMF officials. IMF will give their decision tomorrow regarding the loan installments. We hope that a positive decision will come tomorrow to this end,鈥� said BB spokesperson Arif Hossain Khan.
He said the central bank will hold a press conference tomorrow at its Jahangir Alam conference room at BB headquarters in Dhaka.
BB governor Ahsan H Mansur is expected to share the update about the loan installments through virtually joining the press briefing from Dubai, he added.
Out of the total $4.7 billion loan package, Bangladesh has received $2.3 billion so far in three installments under the extended fund facility, extended credit facility, and resilience and sustainability facility.
