Sub-Saharan Africa : financial sector challenges /
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 cha...
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| Language: | English |
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[Washintgon, D.C.] :
International Monetary Fund,
©2006
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| Series: | World economic and financial surveys
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Table of Contents:
- Key characteristics. Institutional coverage and ownership
- Soundness and efficiency
- Markets, instruments, and market infrastructure
- Operating environment
- Economic challenges. Limited access to financial services
- Insufficient financing of the economy
- Implementation of monetary policy
- Financial sector reforms. Microfinance
- Enterprise financing
- Nonbank financial institutions
- Improving the operating environment
- Elements of a forward-looking reform strategy