Prof. Christine Oughton was an invited Plenary Session speaker at the Annual Conference of The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 5-7 June 2018, Nairobi and presented a paper on “Financial Instruments for Mitigating and Coping with Climate Disaster Risk”
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Congratulations to Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u for his appoinment as the new African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Executive Director effective September 1, 2018. Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u is a member of the International Advisory Group (IAG) of the ESRC Inclusive Finance Project under Centre for Global Finance. Njuguna Ndung’u is the immediate former Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), where he served for two 4-year terms as required by law, from 2007 to 2015. Prior to
Congratulations to Prof. Robert Lensink on receiving a Royal Decoration – Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau for his work related to developing countries, in particular Africa. Prof. Robert Lensink is our CGF research partner on the ESRC Inclusive Finance Project. He is Professor of Finance and Financial Markets at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Groningen (80%) and Professor of Finance and Development in the Development Economics Group at Wageningen
Want to learn how important is the financial sector to price indices in an inflation targeting regime in the UK and the US? Have a look at the paper by Dr. Ahmad Hassan Ahmad, CI of IFP: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11156-016-0578-9
A recent study on the local and foreign markets effect of Chinese partial stock market liberalization by Dr. Ye Bai, CI of Inclusive Finance Project: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1042443117304341
Want to learn how financial education affects saving attitudes in Uganda? Have a look the article by Professor Robert Lensink, CI of Inclusivefinance project: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0193841X16665719?ai=1gvoi&mi=3ricys&af=R
Find the study of Niel Hermes, CI of Inclusive Finance Project, on the relationship between financial liberalisation policies and financial development: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00036846.2017.1358446
Find the book chapter edited by Professor Stephany Griffith-Jones , CI of Inclusive Finance Project, on the topic ‘Achieving Financial Stability and Growth in Africa’: https://set.odi.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Stephany-GJ-book-chapter.pdf
The paper employs the multipurpose nature of mobile telephony to investigate its welfare implications using a large sample of households in Ghana. We use seemingly unrelated probit and instrumental variable procedure to test for two related issues: First, we investigate whether mobile telephony promotes pro-poor development by helping households to efficiently allocate consumption and navigate out of poverty. Second, we analyze whether access to a broad array of financial services
