WHY is the State Bank of Pakistan’s direct lending to the government primarily harmful? And why is government borrowing from commercial banks less harmful, although a bit more expensive? These two questions continue to puzzle many experts. Since direct SBP credits to the government will be illegal following the legislation …
Read More »Regulatory crisis in the Nepalese banking sector
Nepal’s banking sector is heading down a dangerously risky path, not only due to a seasonal and often recurring shortage of loanable funds, but due to a combination of factors ranging from poor regulation and oversight by the authority monetary policy to blatant compromises in corporate governance practices by banks …
Read More »Need to revamp the global health agenda right now – The New Indian Express
Globally, the Covid-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on economies, putting millions of people at risk. Now is the time to think about initiating reforms in the global health agenda. The WHO faced serious criticism from all walks of life over the handling of Covid and could do little to …
Read More »Decision to raise internal loans could worsen liquidity crunch
As the government struggles to spend its existing resources, it has started to raise internal loans, fueling fears that this will lead to a further shortage of financial resources at banks which are already under pressure to lend due to the lack of of cash. On Friday, the Nepal Rastra …
Read More »Agenda for Economic Recovery and Prosperity
Sixth, the SAN proposal outlined the Monetary Policy Committee’s approval of the sharing of a portion of the Federation’s US dollar account for a foreign exchange transaction then scheduled for September 2007. But with the federal government’s political choice of permanently suspending the SAN, the MPC remained in the economic …
Read More »“Unless BB controls discretionary forces, no monetary policy will bring the expected results”
In a working paper recently published by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) entitled “Bangladesh Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism”, the authors – In Huh and Yoonsoo Lee – found that the traditional monetary policy tools used by the Bangladesh Bank (BB), such as the repo rate and the reserve currency (RM), …
Read More »Nigeria’s crippling Forex manufacturing shortage
Members of the Organized Private Sector (OPS) and other stakeholders in the national economy urged the federal government, through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to take action on the challenges faced by manufacturers to access currencies. They also begged the government to sponsor local software developers instead of importing …
Read More »MAN calls for government support to overcome constraints
Through Merit Ibe the The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has requested support from the federal government to overcome the constraining constraints on competitive manufacturing in the country. The association’s president, Mansur Ahmed, made the appeal during the advocacy visit to President Muhammadu Buhari recently, where he listed the challenges …
Read More »Economic recovery: some glimmers of hope but still a long way to go – myRepublica
The year 2021 was decidedly not as gloomy as the year before in terms of freeing the economy from the clutches of the COVID-19 pandemic. Economic activities accelerated as the spread of the coronavirus gradually slowed. The signs are positive but the economy could sink into a crisis if corrective …
Read More »How investment projects suffer from an overburdened civil service – Blueprint Newspapers Limited
With recurrent spending swallowing up the bulk of annual budget allocations, many fear that the execution of investment projects will continue to suffer for a long time; BENJAMIN UMUTEME looks at development. For several decades Nigeria continued to suffer from an infrastructure shortage caused in part by declining income and …
Read More »Economy faces headwinds but finance minister oblivious to crisis
Last week, Finance Secretary Madhu Kumar Marasini sent out a tweet containing warning signals. “Boosted consumer demand, chaos in supply chain management, hoarding, hyper credit, rising inflation: boost!!!”, Marasini wrote on the social media platform, attracting quite a bit of attention. The Finance Secretary’s tweet comes at a time when …
Read More »Amidst liquidity shortage, government delays increase in domestic lending
It is almost mid-December, but the government has yet to start raising internal loans, citing the lack of liquidity in the banking system. Banks and financial institutions in Nepal say they are running out of loanable funds. The open market operations committee, chaired by the vice-governor of the central bank, …
Read More »Tanzania’s recovery gathers pace with increasing exports
By Alex Nelson Malanga Dar es Salaam. The economic recovery is gaining momentum as Tanzania has seen an increase in exports of goods and services, as well as the provision of loans to finance economic activities by the private sector. According to the Monthly Economic Review of the Bank of …
Read More »GSIS, LandBank to help strengthen PCIC
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and the Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) have been asked to help Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. (PCIC) to improve its finances. In a statement on Monday, the finance ministry said the directive was issued after the PCIC reported that 35 centavos were spent …
Read More »The availabilities of the tourist loan window remain sluggish
AVAILABILITY of the government loan facility for the tourism sector remains low even though 70 percent of the sector is “in distress”. Data from the Department of Tourism (DOT) showed that as of November 5, 2021, there were 528 loan applications amounting to P242.83 million that were approved by state-owned …
Read More »Keep businesses away from private banks
Through Seela Subba Rao Recently, former SBI Chairman Rajnish Kumar felt that in a country like India, allowing companies to own banks comes with great risk. He advocated for banks to be properly owned and professionally managed. Similar views were echoed by former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan as well as …
Read More »Tanzania: Banks promise to increase lending for post-Covid growth recovery
THE Covid-19 pandemic has devastated local bank lending to the private sector, but lenders are still optimistic about a bright future, as the global economy normalizes and the government takes action to boost debt intermediation. credit. Bankers expressed optimism at the 20th Conference of Financial Institutions (COFI) on Friday and …
Read More »Reviews | It’s high time for postal banking
USPS has a public service mandate to provide a similar level of service to communities across the country, regardless of local economic conditions. In addition to daily mail delivery to remote locations, the Postal Service maintains post offices even in low-income urban neighborhoods and small towns that lack other basic …
Read More »The G20, the private sector and the vaccine, debt and climate crises – Katie Gallogly-Swan and Rebecca Ray
G20 leaders meeting in Rome must recognize that only public interest, not private profit, can cope with interconnected global crises. A little way to go on all of this (Kraft74 / shutterstock.com) In their recent communicated, the Finance Ministers of the Group of 20 (G20) admirably pledged to use “all …
Read More »Harnessing sustainable finance to fight climate change
Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city, is one of the liveliest cities in the Mediterranean region, surrounded by beaches and historic sites. The city’s port has been a major regional trade hub for thousands of years. But like many cities around the world, Izmir faces major sustainability challenges, such as water …
Read More »Soaring interest rates could hamper post-pandemic recovery
Guru Neupane, a developer of the Upper Chameliya hydroelectric project, is concerned about the potential rise in bank interest rates. Faced with a liquidity shortage, commercial banks are competing to entice depositors, offering high interest rates on deposits. It could also lead to an increase in interest rates on loans. …
Read More »America’s New War on Terror has gone digital
This week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation unveiled some sort of dossier on a group called BlackMatter, which the government says is a “possible rebrand” of the DarkSide-based entity. in Russia and has been active since July, wreaking havoc …
Read More »How to help care? – IMIESA
If the most important issues are raised in coalition negotiations, one thing will certainly not be missing: the next healthcare reform. As is known, there is a broad consensus that the current nursing crisis, which is becoming more and more threatening with demographic changes, must be eliminated and that this …
Read More »Stimulate investments with green bonds
THE The 12th Malaysian Plan (12MP) represents an ambitious and holistic commitment (so far) to put in place the structural conditions for the green economy and accelerate its growth as a fundamental integrated component for the economic and sustainable development of the nation. . Take Chapter 7: “Improving Socio-Economic Development …
Read More »Experts deplore the rising cost of debt service
… let’s say that the crowding out effect harms the economy With around 2.02 trillion naira committed by the federal government to service the debt in six months (January to June) of which 612.712 billion naira went to service the domestic debt between January and March, financial experts and economists …
Read More »White House announces COVID-19 vaccine mandates for many employers
On September 9, 2021, President Joseph Biden announced a comprehensive six-pronged national strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in an action plan titled, End of the pandemic (the plan “). The plan includes COVID-19 vaccination mandates for employees of employers with 100 or more employees, federal contractors and certain healthcare …
Read More »The “academic” point of view on capping interest rates at 9%: a clarification
Asked about the outcome of the lending rate cap, a well-known senior banker recently said: “In spirit, I support the regulator who caps our lending rate to reduce the cost of doing business and improve our ease of doing business. to do business. However, academics believe that lending rate caps …
Read More »Graham Chapman: Was Michael Gove designed to fail in leveling up?
Four serious fault lines will face the new Communities Secretary as he seeks to deliver on the Prime Minister’s top priority, writes the former deputy head of Nottingham City Council and former vice chairman of the East Midlands Development Agency. Michael Gove has been hailed as Mr. Fixit and as …
Read More »A proposal to plant a trillion trees to save us from climate change may not be realistic. here’s why
During his 2020 State of the Union address, President Donald Trump – whose presidency had yet to be derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic – attempted to impersonate an environmentalist by putting everything its weight behind the One Trillion Trees initiative. The future president described it as “an ambitious effort to …
Read More »The belligerent plans for the German economy are full of holes
“I I HOPE YOU I’ll never have to see it like that again, âsays Markus Quint, communications manager at Frankfurt’s Messe (exhibition center), as he examines 440,000 square meters of empty halls from a 22nd-floor terrace. When the pandemic struck last spring, the Messe, which had welcomed nearly 2.5 million …
Read More »Round-the-clock home care buys GrandCare, the non-medical home health division “Cluster Expert”
Often in the field of home care, transactions are conducted by companies seeking to expand their ranges of services to become one-stop-shops for referral partners. Sometimes, however, negotiation is triggered by the desire to duplicate existing expertise. An example of this latest merger and acquisition tactic occurred on Wednesday, with …
Read More »What Every Employer Should Know About the Release of President Biden’s Pandemic Plan | Baker Donelson
On September 9, 2021, President Biden unveiled his Path Out of the Pandemic COVID-19 action plan (the Path Out plan). To date, there are over 175 million Americans fully immunized. The President’s Path Out Plan is aimed directly at the nearly 80 million Americans who are eligible for vaccination who …
Read More »End of the pandemic: proposals for action plans having an impact on employers
On Thursday, September 9, 2021, President Biden announced a series of proposals as part of the administration’s strategy to continue fighting COVID-19. In addition to existing immunization requirements for federal government employees that were issued in July, President Biden ordered the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OHSA) …
Read More »The banking sector is developing despite the impact of Covid-19
By Gadiosa Lamtey Dar es Salaam. The banking sector in Tanzania continued to grow last year, with key indicators showing positive trends despite the Covid-19 epidemic disrupting economic activities across the world. As the economy of sub-Saharan Africa entered recession in 2020, Tanzania’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 4.8%. …
Read More »Raising the legal debt ceiling is not a good idea
PETALING JAYA: The Center for Market Education (CME) pointed out that there are unintended negative consequences generated by additional borrowing, following the proposal of Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz to increase the legal debt limit at 65% compared to the current 60% of gross domestic product (GDP). …
Read More »BSP has ample room for maneuver in monetary policy – Diokno – Manila Bulletin
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin E. Diokno said they continued to have “ample monetary room for maneuver” and reiterated that the current accommodative parameters remain appropriate, but will require time for policy responses to make their way into the economy and stimulate the private sector. consumption and investment. …
Read More »Tanzania: Bot’s 1tri / – Will it Boost the Private Sector, Solve the High Interest Dilemma?
TODAY’s analysis examines the so-called high interest charged by banks in Tanzania amid initiatives by the BoT to pump 1 tril / – to increase private sector investment in what the BoT governor , Professor Florens Luoga, described it as an effort to mitigate the macroeconomic impacts of the covid-19 …
Read More »Businesses Report Huge Profits Using CBN Intervention Loans
Nigerian manufacturing companies are swimming in profits thanks to cheap central bank intervention loans granted over the past two years. A cross section of the financial statements of companies reviewed by Nairametrics reveals massive savings on interest payments paid during the year through loans received by companies. The Central Bank …
Read More »Bank in Tanzania: new measures to promote credit to the private sector
The Bank of Tanzania (BOT) recently issued a Public Notice on Policy Measures to Promote Private Sector Credit and Lower Interest Rates (the Notice), as part of its drive to boost economic recovery and stability in Tanzania. In this article, we summarize the measures outlined in the Notice and what …
Read More »Access to loan is facilitated after examination of Tanzania ID card
By DOROTHY NDALU Bank of Tanzania (BoT) makes it easy for banks to lend in new policy, removing the requirement for a national ID card to register bank agents while lenders would only need 18 months of experience commercial. According to the governor of the BoT, Professor Florens Luoga, this …
Read More »More private sector investment in Annapurna Conservation Area may attract spending tourists to support post-COVID economic recovery – myRepublica
KATMANDU, July 29: According to a new report from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), increased private sector investment in the Annapurna Conservation Area could attract more spendthrift tourists to help boost the local economy in a post-COVID market. The report – Architectural and Cultural Heritage Tourism Products in Nepal: An …
Read More »Tanzania: what bot measures mean for citizens
Dar es Salaam – The productive sector will soon have easy access to bank loans as the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) releases new measures to reduce interest rates on loans and promote credit intermediation. The measures were welcomed by bankers yesterday as soon as the central bank officially announced them. …
Read More »What the BoT’s measures mean for citizens
By Joséphine Christophe By Rosemary Mirondo Dar es Salaam. The productive sector will soon be able to easily access bank loans as the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) publishes new measures to reduce interest rates on loans and promote credit intermediation. The measures were welcomed by bankers yesterday as soon as …
Read More »Tanzania: Bot Pumps 1tri / – to stimulate the private sector
The Bank of Tanzania (BoT) injected 1tri / – to financial institutions for loans to the private sector with the aim of mitigating the macroeconomic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country. BoT governor Professor Florens Luoga told a press conference in Dodoma yesterday that following the Covid-19 pandemic, …
Read More »Tyler Mordy’s Top Picks: July 15, 2021
Tyler Mordy, President and CIO of Forstrong Global Asset Management FOCUS: Exchange traded funds MARKET OUTLOOK: Calling the end of the 1960s: the return of the high-pressure economy Global growth has picked up speed as economies gradually unblock. The key question, however, is what governments will do to change the …
Read More »Agri-agra loans post double-digit growth in the first quarter
Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star) – June 30, 2021 – 12:00 am MANILA, Philippines – Loans from national banks for agriculture and land reform saw double-digit growth of 10% to 765.92 billion pesos in the first quarter, from 696.35 billion pesos in the same quarter of last year, according to …
Read More »Legislature Proposes $ 25 Million Funding for North Carolina Nonprofit’s Small Business Loan Program | North Carolina
(The Center Square) – North Carolina legislature has proposed a bill that would pour $ 25 million into a loan program to help small businesses in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic response. Members of the House Select Committee on Covid-19’s Economic Support Working Group on Tuesday discussed a proposal …
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