Creating a more efficient financial system
Subtitle: challenges for Bangladesh
By: Thorsten Beck, Md. Habibur Rahman, Research working paper Collection Title:Policy
Contributors: Rahman, Md. Habibur; World Bank
Series: Policy research working paper -- 3938; Policy research working papers (Online) -- 3938.
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Government policy; Banks and banking; Finance
Description: "While Bangladesh has embarked on a path to reform its financial system, most prominently by privatizing its government-owned banks, the Nationalized Commercial Banks (NCBs), a sustainable long-term expansion of the financial system requires a more substantial change in the role of government.  Using recent research and international comparisons, this paper argues that the government should move from its role as an operator and arbiter in the financial system to a facilitator role.  This implies not only divestment from government-owned banks, but also de-politicization of the licensing process and a market-based bank failure resolution framework that focuses on intermediation and not on the rescue of individual institutions.  Most important, the government should move away from the implicit guarantee for depositors and owners to applying the existing limited explicit deposit insurance for depositors, while simultaneously relying more on market participants to monitor and discipline banks instead of micro-managing financial institutions.  This redefinition of government's role should not be limited to the banking system, but applies to other segments of the financial system, such as capital markets and the micro-finance sector, and should be seen as an essential element in the governance reform agenda and in the movement from a relationship-based economy to a market and arms-length economy. "--World Bank web site.
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