Most of the literature that explored the relationship between financial development and economic growth taking into consideration the roles played by institutional quality in the ECOWAS region still debates on the roles of institutional quality on economic growth. This study used data from...

The objective of this paper is to show the importance of institutional quality as a factor enhancing the contribution of financial development to macroeconomic performance in SSA. In this context, we first present the theoretical literature and the empirical debates on the subject. Next, we...

Exclusion from the mainstream financial world is a burden on the poor of many countries. The proliferation of new mobile and online financial services, such as e-banking, money transfers, and payment processing has the potential to provide access to basic financial products and services to...