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Financial inclusion : what have we learned so far? : what do we have to learn?
Barajas, Adolfo; Beck, Thorsten; Belhaj, Mohamed; Ben … - 2020
The past two decades have seen a rapid increase in interest in financial inclusion, both from policymakers and researchers. This paper surveys the main findings from the literature, documenting the trends over time and gaps that have arisen across regions, income levels, and gender, among...
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Wealth inequality and private savings : the case of Germany
Dao, Mai - 2020
households and increasingly retained in closely-held firms, the buildup of external imbalances in Germany has been accompanied by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252060
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Has higher household indebtedness weakened monetary policy transmission?
Gelos, Gaston; Grinberg, Federico; Mancini Griffoli, Tommaso - 2019
deteriorating household balance sheets? This paper examines the question using household data from the United States. It compares … the responsiveness of household consumption to monetary policy shocks in the pre- and post-crisis periods, relating … changes in monetary transmission to changes in household indebtedness and liquidity. The results show that the responsiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001512
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Immigration and employment : substitute versus complementary labor in selected African countries
Viseth, Arina - 2020
This paper uses census and household survey data on Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa to examine immigration's impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300611
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Private Investment and Endogenous Growth : Evidence From Cameroon
Ghura, Dhaneshwar - 1997
This paper investigates empirically the factors that have influenced economic growth in Cameroon during 1963-96. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400292
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External Debt Histories of Ten Low-Income Developing Countries : Lessons From their Experience
Ross, Kevin - 1998
The external debt burden of many low-income developing countries has increased significantly since the 1970s. Developments in a sample of ten countries show that the main factors behind the buildup of debt were (1) exogenous (adverse terms of trade shocks or weather), (2) a lack of sustained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400423
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Adjustment Costs, Irreversibility, and Investment Patterns in African Manufacturing
Bigsten, Arne - 1999
This paper examines dynamic patterns of investment in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe, assessing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400554
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A Cointegration Analysis of Broad Money Demand in Cameroon
Nachega, Jean-Claude - 2001
demand in Cameroon over 1963/64-1993/94. The cointegrated VAR analysis first describes an open-economy model of money, prices … Cameroon and France, and the stability of the short-run dynamics of the broad money demand function is confirmed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403616
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Borrowing costs and the role of multilateral development banks : evidence from cross-border syndicated bank lending
Gurara, Daniel Zerfu; Presbitero, Andrea; Sarmiento, Miguel - 2018
Cross-border bank lending is a growing source of external finance in developing countries and could play a key role for infrastructure financing. This paper looks at the role of multilateral development banks (MDBs) on the terms of syndicated loan deals, focusing on loan pricing. The results...
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The impact of the global financial crisis on microfinance and policy implications
Di Bella, Gabriel - 2011
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