Since the 1990s, the financial systems in developing and developed countries have gained in soundness, depth, and diversity, prompted in part by a series of financial sector and macroeconomic reforms aimed at fostering a market-driven economy in which finance plays a central role. Latin America...

Deposit and Lending Interest Rate Liberalization Reforms Challenges, Pathways, and Policy Options -- Deposit and Lending Rates: Significance and Impacts of their Liberalization -- China’s Return on Capital and Real Interest Rates in Relation to Investment -- Household Savings Impact of...

Contents: Part I Theory and evidence on finance and growth -- 1. Financial development and innovation-led growth / Phillippe Aghion, Peter Howitt and Ross Levine -- 2. Financial structure, economic growth and development / Franklin Allen, Xian Gu and Oskar Kowalewski -- 3. Evidence on finance...