{"id":375456,"date":"2025-12-29T16:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/375456\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T16:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:37:09","slug":"foreign-loan-pledges-jump-133-to-1-219b-in-first-5-months-of-fy26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/375456\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign loan pledges jump 133% to $1.219b in first 5 months of FY26"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Foreign loan commitments rise 133% year-on-year
\n$1.22b pledged July\u2013November FY26
\nDisbursements reach $1.94bn in five months
\nBangladesh repays $1.89b in foreign loans July-November<\/p>\n

Bangladesh’s foreign loan commitments from development partners rose sharply in the first five months of the current fiscal year (2025\u201326), increasing by 133% compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n

According to an updated report released by the Economic Relations Division (ERD) today (28 December), Bangladesh signed new loan agreements or received commitments worth about $1.219 billion from development partners between July and November.<\/p>\n


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In the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year, commitments stood at only $522.68 million.<\/p>\n

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ERD officials said commitments had declined last fiscal year due to the mass uprising, the fall of the government, administrative instability, and a resulting crisis of confidence among development partners. However, with the overall situation improving, the volume of new commitments has increased significantly.<\/p>\n

According to ERD sources, foreign loan disbursements increased during the July\u2013November period compared to the same timeframe last year.<\/p>\n

Development partners disbursed $1.94 billion during the period, while Bangladesh repaid almost an equivalent amount.<\/p>\n

During July\u2013November of the current fiscal year, Bangladesh paid $1.89 billion in principal and interest on various foreign loans, nearly matching the amount disbursed by development partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highlights: Foreign loan commitments rise 133% year-on-year $1.22b pledged July\u2013November FY26 Disbursements reach $1.94bn in five months Bangladesh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-375456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}