The newly-appointed Mission Director of the United States foreign assistance outlet, USAID, to Bangladesh, Janina Jaruzelski, today said her government would continue to assist Bangladesh “at the same level as before”. “There is broad consensus in Washington that USAID should continue aid to Bangladesh, regardless of the political situation,” she told a press conference at the AmericanCenter here, reports BSS. Bangladesh receives about $200m in aid, bilaterally, from the United States on an average year. The same amount will be available in the current year and also in future, she assured the audience.

The microcredit regulator has sought one-year extension of the British Department for International Development (DFID)-funded project 'Promoting Financial Services through Poverty Reduction' (PROSPER). Under this programme, the DFID provided Tk 370 million to support the Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA) in 2007. The project is going to end June this year, reports The Financial Express. The DFID support was instrumental in providing the MRA with core operational funding in its early years before government re...