Sub-Saharan Africa: financial sector challenges / Anne-Marie Gulde, Catherine Pattillo, and Jakob Christensen, with Kevin Carey and Smita Wagh.
2006
HG187.5.A357 G85 2006
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Sub-Saharan Africa: financial sector challenges / Anne-Marie Gulde, Catherine Pattillo, and Jakob Christensen, with Kevin Carey and Smita Wagh.
Author
Gulde, Anne-Marie.
ISBN
1589065654
9781589065659
9781589065659
Publication Details
[Washintgon, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, c2006.
Language
English
Description
vii, 49 p. : ill.
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HG187.5.A357 G85 2006
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-49).
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