Bangladesh: Selected Issues

January 7, 1999

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Bangladesh: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1999) accessed December 11, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the reforms in the energy sector in Bangladesh. It assesses the fiscal position of Bangladesh and examines its fiscal sustainability using a simple measure based on the debt dynamics. It concludes that although Bangladesh has so far maintained its sustainability mainly owing to the large portion of foreign financing with highly concessional interest rates, the potential fiscal burdens related to the structural problems in the banking sector and state-owned enterprises might threaten sustainability.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Exports, Financial institutions, Fiscal policy, Fiscal sustainability, Foreign banks, International trade, Loans

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Banking sector, Banking system, Central bank, Commercial banks, CR, Development bank, Exports, Fiscal sustainability, Foreign banks, Foreign exchange, Interest rate, ISCR, Loans, Private sector, Real GDP

Publication Details

Pages:

70
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 1998/130
Stock No:

1BGDEA0011998
ISBN:

9781451804058
ISSN:

1934-7685

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