IMF Staff Country Reports

Bangladesh: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

June 7, 2002

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Bangladesh: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed December 28, 2024

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This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix examines Bangladesh’s nonfinancial state-owned enterprises. The paper argues that, given the overall policy environment and external vulnerabilities, the usefulness of the fixed exchange rate system in Bangladesh has run its course. Greater exchange rate flexibility is needed to ensure that the exchange rate sends appropriate market signals, and to enhance the authorities’ ability to address more effectively and timely both domestic imbalances and external real shocks arising from a rapidly changing global environment. The paper also outlines the structure and recent performance of the commercial banking sector.

Subject: Commercial banks, Economic sectors, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rate flexibility, Financial institutions, Foreign exchange, Poverty, Privatization

Keywords: Asset quality, Authorities' adherence, Bangladesh banking system, Bank, Commercial banks, CR, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rate flexibility, Global, Government, Is total factor productivity, ISCR, Physical capital accumulation, Privatization, Production function, SOEs investment program, SOEs performance, South Asia, TFP growth

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    104

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2002/114

  • Stock No:

    1BGDEA0022002

  • ISBN:

    9781451804096

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685