Intro -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Contributors -- 1. Globalization and National Financial Systems: Issues of Integration and Size -- Part I. Macroeconomics and Globalization -- 2. Deposit Dollarization and the Financial Sector -- Part II. Banking -- 3. Bank Efficiency and Financial System Size --...

Intro -- Contents -- Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Microfinance Penetration -- Non-uniform Development of Microfinance Across Countries -- Microfinance is Too Small to Threaten the Mainstream -- 3. Is Microfinance Different to the Mainstream? -- Differences Related to...

Making Finance Work for Africa takes a panoramic view of Africa's financial systems, both at the large scale ("finance for growth") and the small scale ("finance for all"). Things are changing for the better in African finance. Credit growth is underway after a long pause, solid new...