Bangladesh: Selected Issues

Publication Date:

October 15, 2008

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This Selected Issues paper on Bangladesh reviews institutional developments in the foreign exchange market since 2002. In 2002, there have been several aspects of the financial system and exchange market in Bangladesh that posed impediments to a floating exchange rate system. The financial system has been dominated by state-owned commercial banks with assets amounting to about 24 percent of GDP and accounting for some 46 percent of industry net assets. Market interventions have been largely confined to building foreign exchange reserves and to countering rare disorderly market conditions.

Series:

Country Report No. 2008/335

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

October 15, 2008

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451804270/1934-7685

Stock No:

1BGDEA2008003

Pages:

46

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