progress is Sub-Saharan Africa. The people of Africa are hard at work building a more hopeful future for their continent. There … good plans and good ideas. For Africa and the poorest countries in the world a critical source of development funding comes … responded with an 'Africa Action Plan.' Wolfowitz briefly discussed four key areas of focus: Education, Health, Private Sector …

Africa. The emergence of WAEMU banking groups is a recent phenomenon, spurred in part by the approval of a single banking …There has been significant development of Mali's banking sector in recent years, but it remains shallow, and access to … banking services is limited. With the opening of a new bank in 2014, there are now 14 commercial banks operating in Mali …

and North Africa. The paper first documents the existing financial system in the region. The system is heavily skewed … toward banking, relative to non-banking services, such as stock and corporate bond markets, with significant heterogeneity … contestability and fintech development. The paper is a call to the authorities and policy makers in the Middle East and North Africa …