For decades, African economies have embarked on financial sector reforms. However, the
empirical implications of these reforms have been divergent. This paper investigates the …

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Rural Finance for Food Security for the Poor IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH AND POLICY …

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

This research paper examines the effect of interest rate liberalization on bank deposits in a
developing country Ghana. A deposit function model was specified with long term deposit as …

In the 1980s, as part of their structural adjustment programs, many developing countries
embarked on financial sector reforms to remove the vestiges of financial market repression …

The mobilisation of domestic savings has remained a thriving issue in discussions of ways
and means of harnessing resources for development in Africa. This work attempts to …

Recently, there has been a noticeable increase in investment in West African Economic and
Monetary Union (WAEMU) area. However, economic growth does not necessarily follow the …

During the 1980s, Ghana has been one of many Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries that
have embarked on financial sector reform as part of its structural adjustment program to …

The impact of missing rural finance schemes for the poor's food security2 reveals itself in two
ways. Firstly, if the poor have no access to financial means to bridge temporary, often …

Similar to other developing regions, many African economies have faced generally high
rates of inflation in recent years (for discussions, see Gerdes, 1989, and Ikhide, 1993a) …