Blog

by Tony Addison February 2012

Tony Addison Today, there is much frustration with the financial sector. Society’s precious savings are not being put to the best of uses—investing...

• Banking
• Capitalism
• Public debt

Blog

by George Mavrotas January 2009

George Mavrotas While recent years have witnessed new interest in the finance–growth nexus, the relationship between domestic resource mobilization...

• Banking
• Capital market
• Financial institutions

Working Paper

The poor can and do save, but often use formal or informal instruments that have high risk, high cost, and limited functionality. This could lead to undersaving compared to a world without market or behavioural frictions. Undersaving can have...

• Banking
• Choice
• Consumption

Working Paper

• Banking
• Public debt
• Economic development

Working Paper

A survey of the changing relationship between the market for political services and the market for financial services.

• Banking
• Economic policy
• Financial institutions

Working Paper

This study tests the performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Burkina Faso using indicators such as the sustainable interest rate and the subsidy dependence index. The results indicate that MFIs outreach performance remains very low...

• Banking
• Competition
• Cost effectiveness

Journal Article

Poor rural and urban households in developing countries face substantial risks, which they handle with risk-management and risk-coping strategies, including self-insurance through savings and informal insurance mechanisms. Despite these mechanisms...

• Banking
• Financial crisis
• Financial institutions

Journal Article

This article argues that developing countries face inherent obstacles in setting up efficient financial regulation, and building up a sound banking sector: the presence of multiple tasks and multiple principals, poor institutions, lack of economies...

• Banking
• Financial crisis
• Financial institutions

Journal Article

This paper deals with a dynamic adjustment process in which adjustment of a key variable input (labor) towards its desired level is modeled in a panel data context. The partial adjustment type model is extended to make the adjustment parameter both...

• Banking
• Labour
• Productivity

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics

• Banking
• Choice
• Consumption

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue The Rise of China and India

• Banking
• Competition
• Cost effectiveness

Book Chapter

Part of Book From Capital Surges to Drought

• Banking
• Capital market
• Financial crisis

Book Chapter

Part of Book Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development

• Banking
• Economic development
• Financial institutions

Book Chapter

Part of Book Globalization, Marginalization and Development

• Banking
• Financial crisis
• Financial institutions

Book Chapter

Part of Book From Capital Surges to Drought

• Banking
• Business cycles
• Risk management

Book Chapter

Part of Book Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development

• Banking
• Business enterprises
• Contracts