Part 1. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction and Background: A historical perspective of the role of financial institutions in Africa’s development -- Part 2. Country Monetary Policy Issues -- Chapter 2. Monetary Policy and Price Stability in Ghana's Fourth Republic: Have the Dues Been...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: The Monetary System and the Business of Banking -- Overview of the Monetary System -- Introduction to the Business of Banking -- Introduction to the Business of Banking -- Introduction to the Business of Banking -- Part II: Asset-Liability Management --...

Section 1: Early colonial transitions: commodity, international and colonial currencies -- 1. “Here there is no gold standard. Cows are the standard”. Currencies, wealth accumulation and the monetary transition in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (1896-1936); Domenico Cristofaro --...

This study evaluates the economic impact of the proposed COMESA-SADC-EAC Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) on 26 African countries. It uses the global trade analysis project (GTAP) computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and database to measure the static effects of the establishment of the...

International aid has an ambiguous effect on the macro-economy of the recipient country. To the extent that aid raises consumer expenditure, there will be some real exchange rate appreciation and a shift of resources away from traded goods production and into non-traded goods production....

Several governments in sub-Saharan Africa have embarked on various market reforms to improve commodity market performance. However, the success of such market reforms depends partly on the strength of the transmission of price signals between spatially separated markets and between different...

Studies the services provided by Islamic banks and considers measures to facilitate their role in the financing of small and medium enterprises in Africa.