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| The Central Bank |
| The Banking system
activities within country's economy are generally divided into
two basic fields: |
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1. Adopting monetary policies
2. Performing banking transactions |
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Adoption and implementation of monetary policies: |
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As the co-ordinator
of monetary and credital policies, central bank has both
the adopting and supervisory duties of successful implementation
of the mentioned policies. The main goal for exertion
of such policies includes the efficient co-ordination
of existing supplies and demands of financial sources
within country's economy as a whole, in a way which facilitate
the accomplishment of country's stated goals for economic
development programs.
Due to various phenomena, such as necessary adjustments
made in foreign exchanges and extensive investment activities
of governmental and private sectors in producing and infrastructural
areas, generally demands for cash money (cash flow) within
country's economy greatly increased in recent years and
consequently the crucial task of adoption of new monetary
policies was again granted to the Central Bank. Thus,
to balance the government's budget the Central Bank not
only attempted to base the new monetary policy on restriction
of the growth of cash money, but also in 1994 introduced
the following measures to implement the newly stated policy: |
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The Banking system's performance in 1994: |
Setting certain ceiling for
Banking services and facilities, transferable to governmental,
private and cooperative sectors by the country's Banking
system.
Allocating larger amounts of Banking credital services
to non-governmental and private sectors, in such way that
the largest share (equal to 36%) would be allocated on
mines and industries, 30% on construction and housing
sectors and the remaining 15% would cover the exports,
service and commercial sectors.
The minimum and maximum interest rates for granted Bank
loans and services to various sectors in 1993 remained
unchanged, just like that of 1993 (agricultural sector
12-16%, industries and mines 16-18%, construction - 15%,
as well as service and commercial sector 18-24%). |
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The Banking system (in 1993) demonstrated
a remarkable performance and an appreciable success both
in absorbing the country's deposit sources and allocating
the available resources on various economic sectors, in
accordance with its annual targeted goals. Through implementation
of necessary monetary and credital policies in 1994 the
growth rate of cash money (cash flow) practically showed
a lower figure, only 28.5% as compared with 34.2% of the
previous year, and at the end of the same year the volume
of cash money also included 61844 billion Rials.
Such considerable decrease, considering the governmental
and private sector's needs for more cash money for the
execution of numerous investment projects, certainly marked
yet another outstanding achievement of the Central Bank
in implementation of 1994's monetary policies. More importantly,
due to the public trust in country's Banking system, the
Banks attempts for absorbing the needed deposits were
fruitful and thus great volumes of deposits were entrusted
to numerous banks nation wide by the end of 1994 fiscal
year. Also the share of current Bank notes and coines
in circulation decreased to almost 14.1 in 1994, indicating
the lowest ratio during the previous 20 years. |
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