PART I: Overview of Development Banking in Africa -- 1. Introduction to Development Banking in Africa Joshua Yindenaba Abor and Daniel Ofori-Sasu -- PART II: The Political Economy and Economics of National Development Banks in Africa -- 2. The Political Economy of Development Bank Ghana:...

PART I: Overview of Banking and Finance -- 1. Introduction: An Overview of Africa’s Financial Systems -- PART II: FinTech, Financial Inclusion and Banking Sector Development -- 2. Inflation, Interest Rates and Exchange Rates in Africa -- 3. Bank Market Structure and Competition in Africa -- 4....

The paper investigates the role of board dynamics in explaining the effect of payout policy on shareholders' wealth creation at the market and bank levels. The study employs the 2SLS estimation of a panel dataset of 528 banks from 29 African countries from the year 2006 to 2018. The study finds...

Part I: Overview of Development Finance Institutions and National Development Banks -- Chapter 1: Introduction to National Development Banks -- Chapter 2: Overview of Development Finance Institutions -- Chapter 3: Theoretical Perspectives and Rationale for National Development Banks -- Part II....

The paper seeks to examine the joint effect of entrepreneurship and FDI inflows on economic wealth in Africa. It employs a dynamic system GMM for a panel dataset of 52 African economies between 2006 and 2020. The study finds that FDI inflows induced a negative impact on the ease of doing...