estimate the impact of foreign bank presence on the level and volatility of real credit in a panel of eight Latin American … bank presence has contributed to reduce real credit volatility, improving the buffer shock function of the banking sector … quality assets and having access to a broad set of liquidity sources. -- foreign banks ; credit volatility ; Latin America …

credit and the extent to which they are constrained in the formal credit market. We account for firms self-selecting out of … the credit market in Myanmar. Our data contain information about individual firm owner/manager gender, managerial capacity … with the probability of firms demanding credit, while firms with female owner/managers have lower probabilities of …

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their … needed. -- biofuels ; economic development ; food security ; poverty ; Africa …

strategies by political parties during recent presidential elections in Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia. Specifically, the paper … argues that the nature of party competition in Africa, combined with rapid urbanization and informalization of the labour … Africa intersect with voting behaviour and political party development. -- Africa ; democratization ; political parties …

This paper revisits the link between exchange rate regimes and trade in the context of Africa's exchange rate … Africa's experience with that of the world. Our results suggest that both currency unions and direct pegs promote bilateral … trade in Africa vis-à-vis more flexible exchange rate regimes,and that their effect is almost double for the region than …

-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital … ; absorptive capacity ; technology ; Africa …

. -- tourism ; economic growth ; Africa ; panel vector autoregression …

Over the past two decades, donors increasingly linked foreign aid to democracy objectives in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet … and how foreign aid affects the process of democratic consolidation in sub-Saharan Africa by examining two potential … consolidation. Economic aid, on the other hand, has no effect on democratic consolidation. -- Africa ; democratic consolidation …