This article examines the issues and challenges involved for institutions, policy makers, and law-makers in less developed countries in their efforts to implement asset securitization techniques in their financial markets. Challenges and issues in the areas of market development, legislation,...

This paper reviews the recent empirical studies on the relationship between financial development and economic growth. Both the empirical evidences and the econometric techniques used in the literature are presented and some critiques are given. We show the drawbacks and poles in existing work...