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Bangladesh: 2017 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report

June 8, 2017

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Bangladesh: 2017 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2017) accessed September 19, 2024

Summary

This 2017 Article IV Consultation highlights steady monetary policy management and fiscal discipline in Bangladesh, which have supported macroeconomic stability, allowing the economy to benefit from favorable external demand, high remittances, and low commodity prices. The result has been strong output growth, falling inflation, moderate public debt, and a rebuilding of external resilience. In fiscal year 2017, output growth is expected to remain close to 7 percent. Over the medium term, maintaining output growth of about 7 percent a year would require increased public and private investment, as well as reforms to support capital market development and improved investment efficiency.

Subject: Banking, Capital markets, Commercial banks, Credit, Debt sustainability analysis, External debt, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Monetary base, Money, Public debt

Keywords: Broad money growth, Capital markets, Commercial banks, CR, Credit, Current account, Debt sustainability assessment, GDP ratio, Global, Government bond, Headline inflation, Inflation expectation, Investment efficiency, ISCR, Monetary policy management, South Asia

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    80

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2017/147

  • Stock No:

    1BGDEA2017001

  • ISBN:

    9781484303207

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685