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In Bangladesh, the official permissible threshold level of salt in groundwater for the coastal districts is set at 1,000 ppm or 1,500 μS/cm, which is higher than the standard set at 600 ppm (or mg/L) for the rest of the country. [24] It is also higher than the standard set by the World Health Organization of 250 mg/L. [28]
Prior to the 1970s, Bangladesh had one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. Ineffective water purification and sewage systems as well as periodic monsoons and flooding exacerbated these problems. As a solution, UNICEF and the World Bank advocated the use of wells to tap into deeper groundwater. During the 1970s, UNICEF worked ...
On 26 January 2013, Bangladesh Bank issued a ৳ 25 note to commemorate the 25th anniversary (silver jubilee) of the Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd. On the front is the National Martyr's Monument in Savar, the designs of the previous series of the Bangladeshi taka notes and its postage stamps, three spotted deer and the magpie ...
The Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947 (known as FERA) is a law enacted and was officially published by the Government of Pakistan and still applicable in Bangladesh, which was East Pakistan before independence, to regulate certain payments, dealings in foreign exchange and securities, and the import and export of currency and bullion.
[34] Some of the data used to calculate M3 are still collected and published on a regular basis. [14] Current alternate sources of M3 data are available from the private sector. [35] In the United States, a bank's reserves consist of U.S. currency held by the bank (also known as "vault cash" [36]) plus the bank's balances in Federal Reserve ...
The newly independent government immediately designated the Dhaka branch of the State Bank of Pakistan as the central bank and renamed it the Bangladesh Bank. [9] The bank was responsible for regulating currency, controlling credit and monetary policy, and administering exchange control and the official foreign exchange reserves. [9]
Visualisation of 1%, 1‰, 1‱, 1 pcm and 1 ppm as fractions of the large block . Percentage point difference of 1 part in 100; Percentage (%) 1 part in 100; Basis point (bp) difference of 1 part in 10,000; Permyriad (‱) 1 part in 10,000; Per cent mille (pcm) 1 part in 100,000
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 ...