Financial Sector Development in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Financial Sector Development in Africa write by Thorsten Beck. This book was released on 2012-11-27. Financial Sector Development in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited volume contains eight studies of financial sector challenges in Africa that served as background studies for Financing Africa: Through the Crisis and Beyond. One of the major challenges for African financial systems is to expand financial services to a larger share of the population. The chapters in this area cover microfinance in Africa, the role of technology, reforms of payment infrastructure, and financing agriculture. Two chapters cover challenges in increasing long-term finance; one covers housing finance and the other the role of sovereign wealth fund. The book also contains a detailed discussion of bank regulation and supervision, especially in light of the current regulatory reforms in Europe and North America. The final chapter provides a political economy perspective, discussing the conditions for activist government policies in the financial sector.
Financial Sector Development in African Countries
Financial Sector Development in African Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Financial Sector Development in African Countries write by Omotunde E. G. Johnson. This book was released on 2020-01-10. Financial Sector Development in African Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Palgrave Pivot begins with a broad focus on financial sector development as a whole, highlighting areas such as the money market, payment system, and the capital market, as well as issues such as regulatory strategy, capacity building of financial firms and service providers, and financial inclusion. In the area of foreign exchange market policies, the book argues that African countries should aim for social efficiency of the markets, which would include soundness of their foreign exchange systems, from an economic growth perspective, and fairness from an income distributional perspective. Finally, in recognition of the fact that some African countries desire financial systems that are strong enough to be international centers of finance, the policy-making implications of that ambition are discussed. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in development economics, finance, and money and banking, as well as policy-makers and practitioners. Further, international organisations and independent research organisations interested in economic development in general or financial system development issues will also find this book of value.
Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa write by Mr.Montfort Mlachila. This book was released on 2016-09-14. Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper discusses how sub-Saharan Africa’s financial sector developed in the past few decades, compared with other regions. Sub-Saharan African countries have made substantial progress in financial development over the past decade, but there is still considerable scope for further development, especially compared with other regions. Indeed, until a decade or so ago, the level of financial development in a large number of sub-Saharan African countries had actually regressed relative to the early 1980s. With the exception of the region’s middle-income countries, both financial market depth and institutional development are lower than in other developing regions. The region has led the world in innovative financial services based on mobile telephony, but there remains scope to increase financial inclusion further. The development of mobile telephone-based systems has helped to incorporate a large share of the population into the financial system, especially in East Africa. Pan-African banks have been a driver for homegrown financial development, but they also bring a number of challenges.
Achieving Financial Stability and Growth in Africa
Achieving Financial Stability and Growth in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Achieving Financial Stability and Growth in Africa write by Stephany Griffith-Jones. This book was released on 2016-03-24. Achieving Financial Stability and Growth in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how the financial system should be regulated and structured to achieve the twin goals of inclusive growth and financial stability, with a focus on African low-income countries (LICs). The subject and content of this book is original in that it attempts to draw on the lessons and radical rethinking on the financial sector in developed and middle income countries, arising in the wake of the international financial crisis. It includes four in- depth country case studies, of Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Ethiopia, but also analyses the empirical evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, evaluating the relevance (or not) of such major changes for the very different financial sectors and economies in low income countries. Achieving Financial Stability and Growth in Africa has major academic and policy implications, especially for low income countries, but also more generally, on broader issues. These include the desirable size of the financial sector, as well as more specific issues, such as the high cost of borrowing of small and medium enterprises in LICs, and possible measures to reduce it. Highly topical subjects like the appropriate regulation of the financial sector and management of capital flows are discussed in depth. Though drawing on comprehensive reviews of the literature, this volume has the virtue of the large comparative academic and policy experience of researchers, as well as in-depth case studies, that take account of institutional and economic features of low- income countries. Written by senior academics and policy-makers, this book is a must read for those researching or participating in the financial sectors of low-income countries, as well as in developed economies. It is also suitable for those who study political economy and public finance.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sub-Saharan Africa write by Ms.Catherine A. Pattillo. This book was released on 2006-08-28. Sub-Saharan Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Financial sectors in low-income sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are among the world's least developed. In fact, assets in most low-income African countries are smaller than those held by a single medium-sized bank in an industrial country. The absence of deep, efficient financial markets seriously challenges policy making, hinders poverty alleviation, and constrains growth. This book argues that building efficient and sound financial sectors in SSA countries will improve Africa's economic prospects. Based on a review of the key features of financial systems, it discusses the main obstacles and challenges that financial structures pose for SSA economies and recommends steps that could address major shortcomings in implementing the reform agenda.
