Bangladesh Institutional Diagnostic – Chapter 6

Bangladesh Institutional Diagnostic

Chapter 6: Political economy of private bank governance in Bangladesh

Chapter Overview

List of tables, figures, and boxes

1. Introduction
2. Review of literature on the banking sector of Bangladesh
3. Banking sector in Bangladesh: Performance and challenges
   • Structure of the banking sector
   • Performance of the banking sector
   • Trend in NPLs
   • Trend in interest rates
   • Efficiency of banks in Bangladesh
   • Development implications of the status of the banking sector in Bangladesh
4. Politics of the banking sector: A brief history
5. An analytical narrative of the governance failures in the banking sector
   • Central bank
   • Corporate governance in the PCBs
6. Summary of findings and concluding observations

References
Discussion: Political economy of private bank governance in Bangladesh

Authors: Mirza Hassan, Brac University and Sayema Haque Bidisha, Towhid Iqram Mahmood, SANEM, and Selim Raihan, SANEM
With discussion by Thorsten Beck, Cass Business School London