Poverty in Africa is largely the outcome of slow growth. With the region hosting 10 percent of
the world's population but a staggering 30 percent of the world's poor, the challenges it faces …

Financial development has been widely acknowledged as a contributor to economic growth.
Recent evidence however reflects a dwindling of this relationship, especially in economies …

Observes that since the 1980s, many African countries have embarked on macroeconomic
policy adjustments aimed at setting their economies on the path to a market orientation. In …

The sustainable provision of credit and general financial services to farmers and rural
inhabitants in developing countries has proved to be a difficult task. The history of such …

The recent global? nancial crisis has made? nancial liberalization a topic of great academic
and practical interest. This book makes new contributions to the topic by combining fact …

SIMON PB (1998) Informal responses to crises of urban employment: an investigation into
the structure and relevance of small-scale informal retailing in Kaduna, Nigeria, Reg …

This study examines the impact of the age dependency ratio on domestic savings rates. We
test this issue for 16 African countries using annual panel data. The empirical analysis was …

This paper analyses theory of savings, household source of income, and composition of
household savings in Africa. Data on African Gross Domestic Savings (GDS) as well as on …

Notwithstanding the recent banking innovations, like mobile money services, microfinance
institutions still rely on brick‐and‐mortar branches to provide financial services to the poor in …

The post 2000 period for India has been quite eventful for Indian economy. The Book
examines the implications of growth for inequality and some of the major drivers of growth …