Role of commercial Banks in the economic growth of Nepal

dc.contributor.advisorTara Prasad Bhusal
dc.contributor.authorThapa, Balkrishna
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-12T09:14:52Z
dc.date.available2024-12-12T09:14:52Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis study investigates the role of commercial banks in the economic growth of Nepal over the period 1975 to 2012. The main objective of this study was to examine the trend and pattern of GDP and credit of the commercial banks, to explore the relationship between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and credit among increased number of commercial banks and to study and analyzed total deposit collection and deposit utilization of commercial banks in Nepal. Banks play vital role in the economic growth of a country. They accumulate the idle saving of the different of the people and make them available for investment. They also create new demand deposits in the process of granting loans and purchasing investment securities. Commercial banks play and important and active role in the economic growth of a country; if banking system in a country effective, efficient and disciplined, it brings a rapid growth in a various sector of economy. This study employed the regression analysis. The independent variables includes credit (C r ) made by commercial banks and one period lagged GDP (GDP t-1 ). The dependent variable includes nominal GDP in producer’s price, which measured of nation’s economic performance as economic growth. The major findings of this study have focused on contribution of commercial banks credit to the GDP and economic growth of Nepal. The empirical result shows that the value of lagged GDP and value of credit of commercial banks have positive effects on economic growth of Nepal represented by the GDP. This result test on F test in both 5 percent and 1 percent level of significance, which is statistically significant. Therefore, it recommended that the policy maker should make policies to enhance and establish banking system in every part of economy because banking sector is significantly contributing in the economic growth of Nepal.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/23383
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectCommercial banks:
dc.subjectEconomic growth:
dc.titleRole of commercial Banks in the economic growth of Nepal
dc.typeThesis
local.academic.levelMasters
local.institute.titleCentral Department of Economics
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