Making finance work for Africa

By Patrick Honohan, Thorsten Beck. 2007

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Making Finance Work for Africa presents a coherent policy approach that addresses African priorities and can work in African conditions. It challenges the applicability of some conventional views on a range of issues from securities markets and banking regulation to the organization of microfinance institutions. The authors identify promising trends from across sub-Saharan Africa and pinpoint shortcomings. The book will be useful to policy makers, bankers, financial analysts, and economists working in Africa.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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Finance, Financial Sector Policies, and Long-Run Growth (2008, background): “8 However, as the African experience illustrates, foreign bank entry cannot guarantee rapid financial development in the absence of sound contractual and informational weaknesses (Honohan and Beck, 2007).”
Resolving the African Financial Development Gap: Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya (2012, neutral): “…ceilings, introduction of a variety of measures for banking and capital market development, including financial regulatory schemes, and large scale privatizations of state-owned enterprises (see, for instance, Nissanke and Aryeetey, 1998; Senbet and Otchere, 2006; and Honohan and Beck, 2007).”
Financial Development and Poverty Reduction: Can There be a Benefit without a Cost? (2008, background): “…for financial reform is defined in large part by what has been achieved in advanced economies, ‘many of the elements take a long time to put in place, . . . seeking the short-cuts and ensuring that quick-yielding measures receive sufficient priority are important’ (Honohan and Beck, 2007: 194).”
Financial Institutions and Markets Across Countries and Over Time - Data and Analysis (2009, background): “This can be partly explained by the lack of confidence that households and enterprises have in low income countries have in domestic banking systems, a phenomenon especially pronounced for countries in SubSaharan Africa (Honohan and Beck, 2007).”
The Impact of Microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Evidence (2012, result): “This is inconsistent with the microfinance profile in sub-Saharan Africa (Honohan & Beck, 2007, pp. 166; Mosley & Rock, 2004, pp. 2252 THE IMPACT OF MICROFINANCE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 2253 468).”
Financial Institutions and Markets across Countries and over Time (2010, background): “This can be partly explained by the lack of confidence that households and enterprises have in domestic banking systems, a phenomenon especially pronounced in Sub-Saharan Africa (Honohan and Beck 2007).”
Access to Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is There a Gender Gap? (2013, background): “Given the overall lack of financial service provision, with fewer than one in five households having access to formal financial services, this problem is potentially more pressing in Sub-Saharan Africa than in other developing regions of the world (Honohan and Beck, 2007).”
Financial Development and Poverty Reduction Nexus: A cointegration and causality analysis in Bangladesh (2013, background): “…Jalilian and Kirkpatrick (2001, 2005), Jeanneney and Kpodar (2005, 2008), Quartey (2005), Honohan (2004), Banerjee and Newman (1993), Clarke et al. (2002), Stiglitz (2000), Arestis and Caner (2005, 2009), Dollar and Kraay (2002), Honohan (2004), Beck et al. (2007) and Honohan and Beck (2007).”