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Bangladesh
Bangladesh combines full-fledged Islamic banks with Islamic branches and services inside a broader banking system.
Bangladesh Bank’s Islamic-banking guidelines supplement the general banking laws and set operating and reporting expectations.
Bangladesh Bank’s Islamic-banking guidelines supplement the general banking laws and set operating and reporting expectations.
The setting links a large development and employment challenge to a sizeable Islamic-banking presence.
Rapid institutional reach does not by itself reveal whether financing reaches productive firms or distributes risk differently.
The available aggregates do not identify household access, sectoral loan quality or distributional outcomes.
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Gross capital formation
Latest available year: 2024.
Bangladesh
What this visual showsA verified country trajectory in the measure’s stated unit.
What it does not establishA causal effect of Islamic finance on the observed outcome.
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Financing directed towards FIRE-related activities
Country-year medians by bank type. Each point reports its covered-bank count.
FIRE ordinarily refers to finance, insurance and real estate. Here the measure is broader: it captures bank financing reported for financial institutions, insurance, real estate and consumer-durable activities. It is used as a proxy for firm-level financialisation. The measure does not imply that every underlying financing claim is speculative, harmful or unproductive. It is a sectoral-allocation proxy and a level measure that is sensitive to bank size.
ConventionalIslamic
What this visual showsDescriptive median logged volumes among covered banks.
What it does not establishA bank-size-adjusted or causal difference between bank types.
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