costs and provisioning for loan losses remain high compared to some other economies. Profitability of the aggregate banking …

short run, in contrast to the traditional view that clientelism in politics is a source of significant policy distortion …--is part of a larger effort in the group to investigate the political economy of development"--World Bank web site …

informal, and the impact of normalization on their profitability. The analysis finds that the impact of tax registration on … profitability depends on firm size and the ability to issue tax receipts, and presents a set of prioritized policy implications for …

better understand the reasons why firms are informal and the impact of formalization on their profitability, in order to … registration on profitability depends on firm size and the ability to issue tax receipts. The smallest and the largest firms in the …

--is part of a larger effort in the group to study the effects of bank privatization in developing countries"--World Bank web …

' presence in many countries in the region and more globally, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) needed to overhaul its … Nigeria in the aftermath of the 2009 Nigerian banking crisis. This together with new market expansion opportunities gave an … Nigerian banks have expanded abroad, primarily within West and Central Africa over the recent years. Banks in Nigeria with …

Institutions; and iv) Community Banks and Commercial banks' rural operations. Volume 3 (Non-Bank Financial Institutions and Markets …

"This study discusses potential economic implications for Nigeria of an Economic Partnership Agreement with the … European Union. It uses the World Bank's Tariff Reform Impact Simulation Tool to assess the effects of preferential tariff … imports into Nigeria will be slight. This is in part because the Agreement will likely allow the most protected sectors to be …