This paper presents an overview of the construction of regional indices for three of the four regions within Africa. The three indices are the EASDEX (for East Africa), the NADEX (for North Africa) and the WADEX (for West Africa). The SADC region has been excluded, as it has recently been...

The efficiency and availability of financial services for the poor is a global problem, and has only recently started to attract attention in South Africa. This paper aims to examine the South African microfinance industry by comparing sector-related differences in the ranking of specific...

The paper investigates seasonal effects in seventeen indices on nine African stock markets using regression analysis and the Kruskal-Wallis and Chi-square Median tests. Significant seasonal effects are found on some, but not all indices. The strongest effect observed is the month-of-the-year...