5. What is Nationalization?
βNationalization is the process of bringing the assets
of a company into the ownership of the stateβ
β’ In the early years of Pakistan, the banks were
going well and they played an important role in
the economic development of country.
β’ But afterwards it was felt that banks did not
provide funds towards the most needy sectors of
economy.
6. β’ Keeping in view this situation the banking business was nationalized on
1st January 1947, under Bank Nationalization Act, 1974. On 31st
December 1973 there were 13 Pakistani scheduled banks in Pakistan
with 2906 branches in all over the country.
β’ Govt. of Pakistan took control of all 13 commercial banks and state bank
of Pakistan under Bank Nationalization Act, 1974. Govt. merged the
weaker banks with the banks which had strong financial position to make
5 nationalized banks in all.
These banks are:
I. National Bank of Pakistan (NBP)
II. Habib Bank Limited (HBL)
III. Muslim Commercial Bank (MCB)
IV. United Bank Limited (UBL)
V. Allied Bank Ltd. (ABL)
7. What is Privatization?
Privatization is the transfer of ownership of
government owned institutions to the private
sector. It may be share issue privatization,
asset sale privatization, voucher privatization.
9. Objectives
β’ Better standard of service
β’ Improvement in performance
β’ Promote healthy competition
β’ Quick decisions
β’ Development of capital market
β’ Increase in deposits
β’ Security of loan
10. How privatization can improve performance
β’ There are three themes in which
privatization can be grouped
1. Competition
2. Political interventions
3. Corporate governance
11. Competition
The competition argument states that
privatization will improve the operation of
the firm and the allocation of resources
in the economy, if it results in greater
competition.
12. Political intervention
Privatization can improve efficiency even
without changing market structure if it
hinders interventions by politicians and
bureaucrats who would like to use the
SOEs to further their political or personal
gains.
13. Corporate governance
It is also argued that corporate
governance is weaker in state owned
enterprises than in private firms because
of agency problems and weak incentive
system for managers.
14. Impacts on profitability
β’ Return on Equity (ROE)
β’ Return on Earning Assets(ROEA)
β’ Loan To Deposite(LTD)
β’ Non-Performing Loans
17. Advantages
β’ Improvement in performance
β’ Better standard of living
β’ Decrease in expenses
β’ Increase in deposits
β’ Secured loans
β’ Decrease in default loans
β’ Productive loans
β’ Quick decisions
β’ Economic development
18. Disadvantages
β’ Neglecting small industries
β’ Neglecting Agriculture Sector
β’ Lack of co-operation
β’ Concentration of wealth in few hands
β’ Protection of black money
β’ Favoritism
β’ Profit motive