Financial Markets C h a p t e r - 6 59 helped to keep the money market sound and stable during the financial year 2008. A number of steps were taken for activation of secondary trading in treasury bills/bonds. As a result, the overall money market situation was moderate during FY08. Developments in the money market during FY08 are summarized below: Call Money Market 6.3 The volume of transactions in the call money market depicted a mixed trend during FY08 (Table 6.1) reflecting
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INTRODUCTION Bangladesh is a country with a population of about 150 million; population density being the highest in the world. Agriculture still remains the mainstay in national economy despite rapid industrialization. It plays a significant role in the overall economic development of Bangladesh in terms of contribution to GDP (19.79%), employment (63%), export (15%), food security and poverty reduction. Over the past 50 years, per capita arable land dropped to 0.06 ha. Growing enough food for
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infrastructure investment or research expenditure; and transfer payments like unemployment or retirement benefits, Social Safety nets Basis of Budget * Budgets have an economic, political and technical basis. * Unlike a pure economic budget, they are not entirely designed to allocate scarce resources for the best economic use. * They also have a political basis wherein different interests push and pull in an attempt to obtain benefits and avoid burdens. * The technical element is
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Investment Climate Series Investment Climate in Bangladesh: Enhanced Role of the Capital Market Dr. Prashanta K. Banerjee Md. Mohiuddin Siddique Economic Research Group Working paper No: 3/2010 Investment Climate Series Investment Climate in Bangladesh: Enhanced Role of the Capital Market Authors Dr. Prashanta Kumer Banerjee1 Mohiuddin Siddique2 Mentors Mohammad Musa Ph.D3 Farook Chowdhury4 ECONOMIC RESEARCH GROUP JUNE 2010 1 Senior
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Development of Non Bank Financial Institutions to Strengthen the Financial System of Bangladesh - MONZUR HOSSAIN∗ -MD. SHAHIDUZZAMAN∗ Abstract Non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) represent one of the most important parts of a financial system. In Bangladesh, NBFIs are new in the financial system as compared to banking financial institutions (BFIs). Starting from the IPDC in 1981, a total of 25 NBFIs are now working in the country. As on June 30, 2001 the total amount of paid up capital and reserve
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Summary: The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices of some local banks and track the performance of these banks with superior ratings for environmental, social and governance practices in Bangladesh and these banks are: Eastern Bank Limited, One Bank Limited and Mutual Trust Bank Limited. The study specifically focused on the extent to which companies practicing CSR complied with basic legal labor standards involving their employees and my
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------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form ------------------------------------------------- A project paper on: “Performance in Pooling of funds, making of portfolios and Dividend policy of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB)”. March 19, 2013 | Author: Farzana | Posted in Featured Article Table of Contents * ------------------------------------------------- 1 Chapter 1 * ------------------------------------------------- 1.1 Overview * -------------------------------------------------
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country like Bangladesh, Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME) plays a significant role in boosting up the overall health of the economy. Their contribution towards the economy includes generation of large scale employment, investment, improvement of indigenous skill and technology, promotion of exports and opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovativeness. Bangladesh has around 27,000 medium-sized enterprises and 150,000 small-sized enterprises (defined by the government of Bangladesh as registered
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Answer: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been an important part of the economic transition, business liberalization and macro-economic growth story in Bangladesh over the last decade. Since the last decade, there has been a considerable change in global flows of trade and finance including a surge in FDI. Despite being a recent phenomenon, several underlying factors have contributed to increasing the FDI inflow in Bangladesh, such as trade and exchange liberalization, current account convertibility
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Direct Investment in Bangladesh CHAPTER ONE Background of the Study 1. Introduction 1.1 Introduction Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is considered as one of the vital ingredients for overall development process of a developing Bangladesh. country like Industrial development is an important pre-requisite growth country. of for a economic developing is Bangladesh basically a country of agrarian economy. For her economic development, industrial economy is imperative. So Bangladesh is gradually moving
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