Madagascar - Risk premium on lending

Risk premium on lending (prime rate minus treasury bill rate, %)

The value for Risk premium on lending (prime rate minus treasury bill rate, %) in Madagascar was 39.67 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 9 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 39.67 in 2010 and a minimum value of 8.16 in 2005.

Definition: Risk premium on lending is the interest rate charged by banks on loans to prime private sector customers minus the ""risk free"" treasury bill interest rate at which short-term government securities are issued or traded in the market. In some countries this spread may be negative, indicating that the market considers its best corporate clients to be lower risk than the government.

Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics database.

See also:

Year Value
2001 14.97
2003 12.32
2004 12.55
2005 8.16
2006 8.34
2007 33.16
2008 36.19
2009 37.38
2010 39.67

Classification

Topic: Financial Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Interest rates