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Efficiency of commercial banks in sub-Saharan Africa : a comparative analysis of domestic and foreign banks

Kiyota, Hiroyuki - 2011

inefficiency of commercial banks operating in 29 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries by bank ownership (domestic bank, SSA foreign … bank or non-SSA foreign bank), as well as by the bank size during 2000-07. Tobit regressions are employed to assess the … that foreign banks tend to outperform domestic banks in terms of profit efficiency. In terms of efficiency by bank size …

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The financial inclusion agenda : examining the role of conventional banks in deepening access to formal credit

Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Danquah, Michael - 2021

banking system penetration promotes financial inclusion-notably, access to bank credit and to formal credit. The results of …

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Reforming the global monetary non-system

Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio - 2015

This paper proposes a comprehensive yet evolutionary reform of the global monetary non-system that evolved out of the breakdown of the original Bretton Woods arrangement in the early 1970s. It includes: (i) a global reserve system that mixes the multi-currency arrangement with an active use of...

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Aid and the fiscal and monetary responses to Dutch disease

Roe, Alan - 2011

This study assesses the fiscal and monetary management challenges that can be associated with large inflows of foreign aid. It provides a brief overview of the literature on Dutch Disease (DD) as applied to mineral wealth and then assesses the conventional policy responses that are available to...

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Global macroeconomic cooperation and the exchange rate system

Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio - 2016

This paper looks at historical and current frameworks to manage macroeconomic linkages among economies. It considers first the evolving nature of global payments imbalances. It then focuses on the mechanisms of macroeconomic dialogue and cooperation put in place at different times to guarantee...

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Evaluating monetary policy options for managing resource revenue shocks when fiscal policy is laissez-faire : application to Nigeria

Chuku, Chuku Agbai - 2016

bank, such as; sterilization policy, foreign reserve accumulation policy and openmarket operations. In particular, we find …

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The provision of global liquidity : the global reserve system

Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio - 2014

This paper analyses three major problems of the current international monetary system: the asymmetric-adjustment problem, dependence on the monetary policy of the main reserveissuing country, and the large demand for self-insurance by developing countries. It then proposes two reform routes:...

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Monetary policy in South Africa, 2007-21

Honohan, Patrick; Orphanides, Athanasios - 2022

-targeting framework currently in place. Following a surge in inflation into double digits in 2007/08, the South African Reserve Bank …

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Monetary policy and wealth inequality in South Africa : evidence from tax administrative data

Aye, Goodness C.; Harris, Laurence; Chiweza, Junior T. - 2020

This paper examines the relationship between monetary policy and wealth inequality in South Africa. We employed a unique database of tax administrative data which allowed us to account for individual heterogeneity. These tax data span from 2011 to 2017 and include over 3 million individual...

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Wage inequality under inflation-targeting in South Africa

Merrino, Serena - 2020

This paper aims at providing new evidence over the effect of conventional monetary policy shocks on wage inequality through the earnings heterogeneity channel under the inflationtargeting regime implemented in South Africa since 2000. The empirical contribution follows previous studies by...

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