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In the first four years of the twenty-first century, Pakistan's KSE 100 Index was declared the best-performing stock market index in the world by the international magazine "Business Week". [46] [citation needed] The stock market capitalization of listed companies in Pakistan was valued at $5,937 million in 2005 by the World Bank. [47]
The Grameen Bank extended collateral-free loans to 200,000 landless people in its first 10 years. [9] Most of its customers had never dealt with formal lending institutions before. [ 9 ] The most remarkable accomplishment was the phenomenal recovery rate; amid the prevailing pattern of bad debts throughout the Bangladeshi banking system, only 4 ...
Bangladesh is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Industrialisation in Bangladesh received a strong impetus after the partition of India due to labour reforms and new industries. [125] Between 1947 and 1971, East Bengal generated between 70% and 50% of Pakistan's exports.
The following table lists the top 15 DAC 5 Digit Sectors [88] to which the World Bank has committed funding, as recorded in its International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) publications. The World Bank states on the IATI Registry website that the amounts "will cover 100% of IBRD and IDA development flows" but will not cover other ...
Pakistan Vision 2025 is a set of goals for social, economic, security, and governance developments outlined by the government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to be achieved by 2025. The overall goal is for Pakistan to become an upper-middle income country by 2025 and to eventually become one of the top ten economies in the world by 2047 ...
According to the Economic complexity index, Pakistan is the 67th largest export economy in the world and the 106th most complex economy. [10] During the fiscal year 2015–16, Pakistan's exports stood at US$20.81 billion and imports at US$44.76 billion, resulting in a negative trade balance of US$23.96 billion. [11]
Prior to independence, the Reserve Bank of India acted as the central bank for what became Pakistan. Under pressure from the International Monetary Fund, Pakistan implemented economic reforms in the late 1990s. [1] These reforms included a $250 million World Bank loan for banking reform, which helped in loan recovery and reducing operational ...
Bangladesh Bank is the central bank of Bangladesh and the chief regulatory authority in the banking sector. According to the Bangladesh Bank Order, 1972 the Government of Bangladesh reorganized the Dhaka Branch of the State Bank of Pakistan as the central bank of the country and named it Bangladesh Bank with retrospective effect from 16 ...