Singapore’s financial sector, which is dominated by the banking sector, remains robust despite a series of economic … major structural changes in recent years, Singapore’s financial sector is still dominated by the banking industry. …

The purpose of this paper is to study the origins of banking crises in sub-Saharan Africa, drawing upon the experience … these crises. The conclusions underscore that the banking crises examined did not represent an entirely special case … several of their features were nonetheless specific to this part of the world. These banking crises were the very prototype of …

suitable framework for financial supervision. Nonperforming loans are relatively high in the banking sector, and demand for …

This study looks at the first two years of the banking crisis that erupted in Indonesia in late 1997. It finds that the … banking sector was weak at the outset, and that governance problems intensified the crisis and seriously delayed its … in the costs of resolution. By end-1999, the critical elements to reconstruct the banking system were in place, and the …