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South Asia: Monetary Indicators and Prices

 Country

Money & Quasi Money

Claims on Private Sector

Claims On Government

& Other Public Entities

GDP Implicit Deflator

Consumer Price Index

Food Price Index

Annual % Growth Of M2

Annual Growth As % of M2

Annual Growth

As % of M2

Average Annual % Growth

Average Annual % Growth

Average Annual % Growth

1990

1999

1990

1999

1990

1999

1980-90

1990-99

1980-90

1990-99

1980-90

1990-99

Bangladesh

10.4

15.5

9.2

8.7

-0.2

6.7

9.5

4.1

-

5.5

10.4

4.3

India

15.1

17.2

5.9

9.9

10.5

6.8

8.0

8.5

8.6

9.5

8.4

9.8

Nepal

18.5

21.6

5.7

9.3

7.3

3.4

11.1

8.6

10.2

9.0

10.1

9.6

Pakistan

11.6

4.3

5.9

6.7

7.7

-1.9

6.7

10.6

6.3

10.3

6.6

10.8

Sri Lanka

21.1

12.4

16.2

9.9

6.8

7.8

11.0

9.4

10.9

10.3

10.9

10.9

Note: The Monetary & Financial data in this table are published by the IMF in its monthly “International Financial Statistics” & annual “International Financial Statistics Yearbook”. The IMF collects the data of the financial system of its member countries. The World Bank receives the data from the IMF in electronic files that may contain more recent revisions than the published sources. The GDP deflator data are from the World Bank’s National Accounts files. The food price index data are from the UN statistics Division’s “Statistical Yearbook” & “Monthly Bulletin of Statistics”. The discussions of monetary indicators draws from an IMF Publication by Marcello Cailora, A Manual for Country Economists (1995)
Source:  World Development Indicators : 2001, The World Bank, Washington, 2001

 
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