With this expectation in mind it considered the balance of payments problem to be of a temporary nature ... that excessive government spending and waste is responsible for this crisis requires a ...

Treasury Secretary Sumith Abeysinghe and Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal were among many high-level officials present at a recent meeting which discussed a range of options to tackle a ...

The paper discusses the specific empirical implementation of alternative crisis definitions (Section III). How well have existing early warning systems done in predicting currency or balance of ...

The balance of payments (BOP) is the method countries ... such as the Asian financial crisis. Many of these countries had restrictive macroeconomic policies, by which regulations prevented ...

The net result is a balance-of-payments crisis and the election victory is never had. Then the cycle begins again. A similar dance for survival also confronts our dictators. They face fewer ...

Economic management of this crisis involved implementing import restrictions and raising the central bank discount rate to prevent a balance-of-payments crisis. As a result, economic growth ...

The fear of a massive payment interruption has led analysts to compare this situation to the 2008 crisis, but with even more unpredictable consequences. The dismantling of USAID is another turning ...

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The loan was largely a precautionary measure, but Bangladesh must ensure the additional funds truly benefit the economy over the long term.

India has tended to be permanently on the cusp of a balance-of-payments crisis due to its reliance on energy imports priced in US dollars. But the situation is changing now. As a percentage of GDP ...