Research
Impact of Non-Performing Loan on Profitability of Banks in Bangladesh: A Study from 1997 to 2017
Bangladesh being a developing country heavily depends on the banking sector for smooth financial intermediation. Banking industry of Bangladesh has been facing the acute problem of NPL since long. This paper aims to discover the impact of non-performing loan ratio, capital adequacy ratio and provision maintenance ratio on the return on asset (ROA) of all banks based on the last twenty-one years data. This study also investigates the root causes and adverse effects of the non-performing loan. Secondary sources of data are collected from the annual reports of Bangladesh Bank and analyzed by Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method and Vector Auto Regression (VAR) model using STATA 14.2. The results of the study reveal that there are different directional short-run causality exist between variables and the OLS regression analysis confirms that two independent variables; non-performing loan ratio and provision maintenance ratio are statistically significant to the dependent variable; return on asset (ROA).
Performance Evaluation of Agricultural Credit of Banks in Bangladesh
The term agriculture is an essential organ of the economy of Bangladesh. In order to ensure long-term food security, a cost-effective, sustainable and environment-friendly agricultural system is very decisive. Agricultural sector plays an irrefutable role in achieving the overall growth and development of the economy of Bangladesh. Agricultural credit plays an inevitable role in agricultural productivity, since it has increased the quantity and quality of inputs used in production process. Timely and adequate flow of agricultural credit is tremendously important for Agricultural productivity. This paper investigates the performance of overall agricultural credit over time; evaluate the performance of agricultural credit of various types of banks in Bangladesh, Analyze performance of agricultural sub- sector and reveals status of the beneficiaries of agricultural credit. This study collected time series data from various source and analyze in a meaningful way to discover the true performance of agricultural credit of banks in Bangladesh.
