This role is‚ perhaps‚ the most unheralded aspect of our activities‚ yet it remains among the most critical. The Reserve Bank is one of the few central banks that has taken an active and direct role in supporting developmental activities in their country. The Reserve Bank’s developmental role includes -ensuring credit to productive sectors of the economy‚
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THE IMPACT OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR ON NIGERIA ECONOMIC GROWTH PERFORMANCE (1980-2009) ABSTRACT The study set out to ascertain the extent to which Agricultural sector has contributed to the growth of Nigerian economy from 1980 to 2009. As a guide to the study‚ the following hypotheses were formulated: (1) there is no statistical significance between Nigerian agricultural output and real gross domestic product (2) there is no statistical significance relationship between exchange rate fluctuation
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International Conference on Micro Finance th th Kapuas Palace Hotel‚ Pontianak‚ Indonesia‚ May 16 -19 ‚ 2011 ISSN : REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS PERFORMANCE IN INDONESIA Mailda Alfriska‚ Sri Harryani meldha@hotmail.com‚ sri.harryani@yahoo.com Accounting Department Faculty of Economics‚ Gunadarma University South Jakarta‚ Indonesia ABSTRACT Regional Development Banks (BPD) as one of the banks that exist in the national banking system has a function and a significant role in the context of
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are unique to each country based on historical‚ economic and institutional imperatives. In Nigeria‚ the reforms in the banking sector preceded against the backdrop of banking crisis due to highly undercapitalization deposit taking banks; weakness in the regulatory and supervisory framework; weak management practices; and the tolerance of deficiencies in the corporate governance behaviour of banks (Uchendu‚ 2005). Banking sector reforms and recapitalization have resulted from deliberate
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The Role of Central Bank Bank of Thailand (Central Bank of Thailand) The Bank of Thailand Act was promulgated on April 28‚ 1942 conferring the status of a juridical person on the Bank of Thailand and allowing it to carry out all central banking functions. The Bank of Thailand started operations on December 10‚ 1942. As per the Bank of Thailand Act‚ 1942‚ the Minister of Finance is charged with powers to look after the overall functions of the bank. The main objective of the bank is to maintain
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Agricultural Sector of Indonesia And Its Role on Economy With its vast and abundant fertile soils Indonesia is a major global key producer of a wide variety of agricultural tropical products‚ and although agriculture’s share of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) has declined markedly during the last five decades‚ it still provides income for the majority of Indonesian households today. In 2012 this sector employed around 49 million Indonesian individuals‚ which represents 41 percent of the
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the key roles played by bank capital in the banking business. This report briefly outlines the main functions of bank capital and takes a brief look at the benefits of bank capital to the bank and the banking industry. It is hoped that from reading this paper a general understanding of the roles of bank capital in the banking business can be gained. Bank Capital A bank ’s capital also known as equity is the margin by which creditors are covered if the bank ’s assets were liquidated. A bank must hold
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Agricultural Subsidies and Development 1. The removal agricultural tariffs and subsides‚ according to Oxfam‚ would benefit developed nations because their consumers would benefit from lower domestic agricultural prices and the elimination of the taxes they must pay in order to support the subsidies. The producers in the developed world would lose this government protection from competition as well as the financial incentives. I believe there would be a net benefit from changing our agricultural
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The role of banks in an economy One think one knows what a bank is and what it does. And not without reason: most people have had experience of at least one bank‚ even if it is only through having a salary account or withdrawing cash from an ATM. A bank’s activities in all its divisions can basically be simplified as follows: it transfers money and information‚ and in doing so transforms money‚ maturities and risks. Some of the example of four lines of a bank’s business to examine how it does this
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Role of a Custodian Bank A custodian is a financial institution that is specialized in safeguarding g the firms or an or the individuals financial assets and is not associated with any sort of commercial or traditional banking tasks like branch banking‚ personal accounts management or so on. The role of a custodian bank is usually to hold the assets and securities of the individuals in assets like bonds or commodities which are traditionally considered to be very safe. This would also include
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