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Savings, Financial Development, and Economic Growth in the Arab Republic of Egypt Revisited

Hussein, Khaled - 2017

Private savings play a pivotal role in financing development and sustaining growth. Recently, there have been many theoretical developments that underpin key determinants of savings behavior, many of which merit empirical investigation. Understanding the dynamics of the determinants of savings...

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On Financial Development and Economic Growth in the Arab Republic of Egypt

Mohieldin, Mahmoud - 2019

This paper discusses the evolution of the Egyptian banking sector and the main trends in financial development in the Arab Republic of Egypt. The paper examines empirically the relationship between the development of the financial sector and economic growth in Egypt between 1980 and 2016. It...

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Financial Development, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Growth Dynamics

Kassa, Woubet - 2018

factor productivity growth. The paper also documents a positive impact of trade openness on the relationship between exchange …

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Productivity Growth in Romania : A Firm-Level Analysis

Iootty, Mariana - 2019

This paper examines productivity growth in Romania using balance sheet data for a census of Romanian firms in 2011 …-17. Three measures of productivity are estimated: labor productivity, revenue total factor productivity, and revenue total … factor productivity adjusted for markups. Drawing from these measures, the paper follows a two-step approach to answer two …

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Benchmarking Financial Systems : Introducing the Financial Possibility Frontier

Beck, Thorsten - 2017

Across the world, supply for financial services rarely matches the demand, given multiple market frictions. This paper discusses the concept of the financial possibilities frontier as a constrained optimum to categorize different problems of shallow financial markets or unsustainable expansion....

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Resolving the African Financial Development Gap : Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya

Allen, Franklin - 2017

With extensive country and firm-level data sets, this paper first documents that the financial sectors of most Sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. The paper also finds that population density appears to be considerably...

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Financial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean : Stylized Facts and the Road Ahead

Didier, Tatiana - 2017

The paper documents the major trends in financial development in Latin America and the Caribbean since the early 1990s. The paper compares trends in Latin America and the Caribbean with those in Asia, Eastern Europe, and advanced countries and compares countries within Latin America and the...

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Job Growth and Finance : Are Some Financial Institutions Better Suited to Early Stages of Development than Others?

Cull, Robert - 2017

This paper combines firm-level data from 89 countries with updated country-level data on financial structure, and uses two estimation approaches. It finds that in low-income countries, labor growth is swifter in countries with a higher level of private credit/gross domestic product; the positive...

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The Evolving Importance of Banks and Securities Markets

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017

This paper examines the evolving importance of banks and securities markets during the process of economic development. As economies develop, they increase their demand for the services provided by securities markets relative to those provided by banks, such that securities markets become...

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Financial Development and Survival of African Agri-Food Exports

Jaud, Melise - 2017

This paper investigates the link between export survival of agri-food products and financial development. It tests the hypothesis that financial development differentially affects the survival of exports across products based on their need of external finance. The authors test whether exports of...

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