Why do producers complain about shortage of bank facilities at conventional rates despite the growth in money supply?
Money supply grew by 34% over the year ending Oct. 22, increasing from 42,270 trillion rials ($107 billion) to 56,770 trillion rials ($143.72 billion). Overall banking credits of the non-governmental sector increased from 26,540 trillion rials to 36,850 trillion rials ($67.18 billion) during the same period, registering a 39% growth. Statistics show that money supply has grown by 34% and the credit balance to the non-governmental sector by 39%. So what is behind businesses’ shortage of money?
Ali Cheshomi, an economic analyst, prefaced his article for the Persian economic daily Donya-e-Eqtesad with this note. A translation of the rest of the text, where he responds to this question, follows:
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