Search Results - subject:"informal financial sector"

Corporate credit and leverage in the EU: Recent evolution, main drivers and financial stability implications

Beck, Thorsten; Peltonen, Tuomo; Perotti, Enrico C.; … - 2023

This report presents a long-term view of the evolution of financing of EU non-financial corporations (NFCs) in recent decades. It finds a decline in NFC leverage since at least 2008, and across countries, size categories and industries. It also documents a growing role of non-bank financial...

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Determinants of Village Savings and Loans Association membership and savings amounts in Awutu Senya West District of Ghana

Alesane, Aaron; Yussif, Kamaldeen; Anang, Benjamin Tetteh - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-11

At the macro level, savings mobilization plays an important role in economic growth and development whilst at the micro household level it plays a critical role in production, consumption and investment decisions. However, savings mobilization in many developing countries remains low which calls...

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Determinants of village savings and loans association membership and savings amounts in Awutu Senya West District of Ghana

Alesane, Aaron; Yussif, Kamaldeen; Anang, Benjamin Tetteh - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-11

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233149

A Portrait of Informal Sector Credit and Interest Rates in Malawi: Interpolated Monthly Time Series

Ngalawa, Harold - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014

Although informal finance forms a large part of their financial sector, nearly all low income countries exclude informal transactions in official monetary data. Usually, informal finance data are nonexistent and occasionally, they are available only from surveys that often occur at irregular...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133827

Interaction of Formal and Informal Financial Markets in Quasi-Emerging Market Economies

Ngalawa, Harold P.E.; Viegi, Nicola - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013

, we demonstrate that formal and informal financial sector loans are complementary in the aggregate, suggesting that an … sectors change in diametrically opposed directions with the implication that the informal financial sector may frustrate … monetary policy, the extent of which depends on the size of the informal financial sector. Thus, the larger the size of the …

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Interaction of Formal and Informal Financial Markets in Quasi-Emerging Market Economies

Ngalawa, Harold; Viegi, Nicola - Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and … - 2013

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A Portrait Of Informal Sector Credit And Interest Rates In Malawi: Interpolated Monthly Time Series

Ngalawa, Harold - In: The African Finance Journal 16 (2014) 2, pp. 64-81

Although informal finance forms a large part of the financial sector in nearly all low income countries, official monetary data exclude informal transactions in these countries. Usually, informal finance data are nonexistent and occasionally, they are available only from surveys that often occur...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079274

Interaction of formal and informal financial markets in quasi-emerging market economies

Ngalawa, Harold; Viegi, Nicola - In: Economic modelling 31 (2013), pp. 614-624

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Interaction of formal and informal financial markets in quasi-emerging market economies

Ngalawa, Harold; Viegi, Nicola - In: Economic Modelling 31 (2013) C, pp. 614-624

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636294