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Article | The treaty establishing the Arab Maghreb Union was signed on February 17, 1989 by the five Maghreb heads of State in Marrakech. Yet Maghreb financial integration has not been… |
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31/12/2014 |
Article | Given the crucial role of banking and financial sectors in promoting economic activity in Africa, donors support the emergence of solid and perennial financial systems. To this… |
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31/12/2014 |
Article | This article presents a progress report on the integration of the insurance market in the states member of CIMA, its achievements and the new challenges ahead. With the setting of… |
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31/12/2014 |
Article | The SRISK measures the need for recapitalization of a financial institution conditional to a market shock of great importance. Widely disseminated in the academic community, in… |
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31/12/2014 |
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The Cost of Financing in Africa: Policies to Reduce Cost and Enhance Financial Inclusion Free access
This paper analyzes the cost of financing in Africa and identifies policies to reduce this cost and enhance financial inclusion in the region. After a brief overview of financial… |
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31/12/2014 |
Article | Considering the huge investment opportunities offered by these demographic, urban and economic changes, the African continent has become a key destination for private equity… |
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31/12/2014 |
Article | This paper investigates empirically the impact of bank regulation on the risk of default of WAEMU banks over the period 2000-2010. Our results suggest that banks which have… |
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31/12/2014 |
Article | Deep and efficient financial sectors are important in supporting growth. Against this general finding of the literature we take stock of changes in financial development in… |
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31/12/2014 |
Article | Before 2006, only South Africa had issued a foreign-currency denominated sovereign bond in Sub-Saharan Africa. From 2006 to 2014, twelve other countries have issued a total of $15… |
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31/12/2014 |
Article | Africa has become increasingly integrated to the global financial and economic system in recent years. This article considers the role of credit ratings in that trend. Ratings… |
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31/12/2014 |
Article | This article begins with a brief overview of the growth of cross border banking in Africa. Then, after highlighting some aspects of the context in which these banks operate, the… |
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31/12/2014 |
Article | This paper discusses recent progress in financial deepening across Sub-Saharan Africa. Using an array of different data, we document that African banking systems are shallow but… |
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30/09/2014 |
Article | Real estate plays a major role in business cycles through three main channels. The first one is housing investment, the second one is a financial accelerator by which the increase… |
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30/09/2014 |
Article | According to the World Bank, bank exclusion affects 2.5 billion inhabitants. Economic literature on the subject deals essentially with the characteristics of those excluded from… |
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30/09/2014 |
Article | This paper analyzes the main changes in the housing financing in France during the period 2003-2013. Relying mostly on the data made available at the Banque de France, it recalls… |
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30/09/2014 |
Article | At the onset of the financial crisis in 2007, “fair value” accounting came under fire for its pro-cyclical effects. Seven years on, fair value remains the sole method of… |
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30/09/2014 |
Article | Recently, real estate and notably housing markets have been found as the preferred area for testing the potentials of macroprudential policies. After an analysis of international… |
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30/09/2014 |
Article | Advanced countries now benefit from a macroprudential institutional framework. This article presents available monitoring tools for the analysis of the housing market as well as… |
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30/06/2014 |
Article | Many questions have found no answer yet regarding SMEs financing. Actually SMEs present specific features giving rise to real constraints and leading to a financial gap. These… |
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30/06/2014 |
Article | SMEs of critical size (between 10 and 150 employees) are key to the French growth dynamic. They represent more than one third of total value added and employment. It turns out… |