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Money and Banking in Africa
This book presents a holistic exploration of the banking systems in Africa. Considering the central role that banks play in most developing countries and the vastly different trends and challenges they face, the book provides a crucial understanding of the specific environments in which banks operate. It addresses specific banking issues relevant to developing countries in general and Africa in particular, and explores the various dynamics of money and banking that separate Africa from the rest of the world. The authors build upon extensive Africa-based research and university teaching, and illustrate each topic with examples and cases from the continent. Written in an accessible style while retaining its practicality and relevance, it is an essential read for professionals, students, and other readers interested in policies affecting the banking sector’s development in Africa.
The Economics of the Oil and Gas Industry
Energy is a key resource for transformational development globally. Oil and gas continue to play a key role in this sector irrespective of the gradual transition towards renewables and will continue to do so in most developing and emerging economies in the near future. The industry is complex and highly capital intensive not only with significant risk, but also with significant benefits. Such a complex but important sector is generally not well understood both in academic and policy circles. This book fills this void by serving as a comprehensive reference to the oil and gas sector, with a focus on emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). It offers in-depth coverage of the critical...
Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Developing Markets
Covering pertinent areas of sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) this forward-looking book examines SRI in developing markets including its evolution, principles and concepts. It explores the drivers and challenges in developing economies and analyses the theoretical underpinnings to critical issues pertaining to SRI.
Hukum Perbankan dan Lembaga Pembiayaan
Hukum perbankan bukan hanya tentang klausa-klausa rumit dan frasa hukum yang tersembunyi di balik kontrak-kontrak. Ia melibatkan dinamika yang melibatkan kepercayaan masyarakat, perlindungan konsumen, stabilitas ekonomi, dan evolusi teknologi. Melalui halaman-halaman ini, pembaca akan dibimbing untuk memahami bagaimana peraturan-peraturan ini tidak hanya mengatur hubungan antara bank dan nasabah, tetapi juga membentuk fondasi bagi perkembangan ekonomi sebuah bangsa. Buku ini merupakan pemandu yang komprehensif untuk memahami landasan hukum yang mengatur sektor perbankan dan lembaga pembiayaan. Dalam era dinamika ekonomi dan keuangan yang terus berkembang, pemahaman mendalam mengenai regulasi dan prinsip-prinsip hukum yang mengarahinya sangatlah penting. Buku ini bukan hanya sekedar kumpulan hukum dan pasal, tetapi sebuah narasi yang merangkai konteks dan konsep-konsep hukum perbankan. Dengan membaca buku ini, diharapkan pembaca dapat memahami bahwa hukum perbankan dan lembaga pembiayaan bukan hanya sekadar aturan-aturan kaku, melainkan pilar yang membangun kepercayaan, kestabilan, dan kemajuan dalam sistem keuangan suatu negara.
Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth
This paper studies the impact of the level and volatility of the commodity terms of trade on economic growth, as well as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital acquisition. We use the standard system GMM approach as well as a cross-sectionally augmented version of the pooled mean group (CPMG) methodology of Pesaran et al. (1999) for estimation. The latter takes account of cross-country heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence, while the former controls for biases associated with simultaneity and unobserved country-specific effects. Using both annual data for 1970-2007 and five-year non-overlapping observations, we fi...
The Emerging Indian Economy
As the U.S.-India relationship continues to deepen, some misconceptions unfortunately linger about the forces driving India's economic growth. Over the course of a year-long lecture series, the CSIS Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies invited key business leaders to discuss the issues facing some of the foundational, albeit underexplored, sectors of the emerging Indian economy. Infrastructure, energy, health care, and manufacturing are all top priorities for India's leaders. The policies affecting these sectors will have long-lasting implications for India's growth trajectory. The business leaders who delivered public remarks for this project outlined some of those choices and their importance. You will find their respective analyses and recommendations compiled in this report.
Rethinking Financial Deepening
The global financial crisis experience shone a spotlight on the dangers of financial systems that have grown too big too fast. This note reexamines financial deepening, focusing on what emerging markets can learn from the advanced economy experience. It finds that gains for growth and stability from financial deepening remain large for most emerging markets, but there are limits on size and speed. When financial deepening outpaces the strength of the supervisory framework, it leads to excessive risk taking and instability. Encouragingly, the set of regulatory reforms that promote financial depth is essentially the same as those that contribute to greater stability. Better regulation—not necessarily more regulation—thus leads to greater possibilities both for development and stability.
Banking Efficiency and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
This study assesses the determinants of banking system efficiency in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and asks what, besides the degree of efficiency, explains the low level of financial development in the region. It uses stochastic frontier analysis to measure efficiency and a generalized method of moments system to explain financial development. SSA banks are found to be generally cost-efficient, but nonperforming loans undermine efficiency, which suggests that improvement in the regulatory and credit environments should improve efficiency. The political and the economic environment have held back financial development in SSA.
Bank Privatization and Performance
"Beck, Cull, and Jerome assess the effect of privatization on performance in a panel of Nigerian banks for the period 1990--2001. They find evidence of performance improvement in nine banks that were privatized, which is remarkable given the inhospitable environment for true financial intermediation. Their results also suggest negative effects of the continuing minority government ownership on the performance of many Nigerian banks. The authors' results complement aggregate indications of decreasing financial intermediation over the 1990s. Banks that focused on investment in government bonds and non-lending activities enjoyed a relatively higher performance. This paper--a product of the Finance Team, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to study the effects of bank privatization in developing countries"--World Bank web site.
Growth and Cohesion in the European Union
This book is a critical review of current fiscal and monetary policy in Europe and presents results of both empirical research and a discussion of the theoretical framework behind the policy of the ECB and the Stability and Growth Pact.
