the macroeconomy"--World Bank web site …

banking services is limited. With the opening of a new bank in 2014, there are now 14 commercial banks operating in Mali …, though performance varies widely among banks, and asset quality is weak …

costs and provisioning for loan losses remain high compared to some other economies. Profitability of the aggregate banking … lack of competition, but it needs to be assessed with contestability conditions (openness to entry of banks). The lack of … license applications since 2001 raises questions about the attractiveness of entry by new banks. Competitive and market …

Institutions; and iv) Community Banks and Commercial banks' rural operations. Volume 3 (Non-Bank Financial Institutions and Markets …) community banks and commercial banks' rural operations; vi) insurance and pensions; vii) housing finance; viii) money and …

in banking"--World Bank web site …

-banked in terms of bank branch presence, disparities however in financial access can be as significant between neighborhoods …

of key banks and insurance companies, in the early 1990s led to the establishment of a more efficient and competitive … banking system. In Benin, all state-owned commercial banks were liquidated in the late 1980s, leading the way to the emergence … of a strong network of private banks serving urban areas, and of grass root-based institutions serving people in rural …