""This book explores the impact of mobile money transfer and its impact on social, corporate, micro, and macro policies concerning the aggregated economy and individual households as a whole within an economy"--Provided by publisher"--

"This book explores the impact of mobile money transfer and its impact on social, corporate, micro, and macro policies concerning the aggregated economy and individual households as a whole within an economy."- Provided by publisher

This paper investigates the extent to which the structure of the local credit market, in terms of the presence and lending capacity of traditional banks, shapes the growth and local outreach of peer-to-peer lending. Our study reveals that areas that are financially undeserved by the traditional...

This paper evaluates the imposition of caps on microcredit lending rates through directed credit policies for productive sectors. This financial inclusion intervention provides a unique quasi-experiment, allowing to estimate its causal effect following a difference-in-differences analysis. Our...

The Kenyan credit market is characterised by imperfections that manifest themselves in imbalances in the form of credit gaps where supply deviates from its long-run trend. This paper extends the analysis of the credit market adjustment process beyond the conventional price mechanism, recognising...

The latest global financial and economic crisis of 2008 has shown the need to re-examine the desirability of financial liberalization. This book is undertaking such a study on the issue of financial and market liberalization by adopting sophisticated econometric methods. It examines the effects...