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
https://www.odi.org/experts/1320-judith-tyson – New data of finance by country and sector for sub-Saharan Africa from 2006 to 2015 shows the very heavy concentration to a very few countries and sectors and their lack of correlation to the needs of inclusive growth. Nigeria alone received 45% of all finance and MICs received 67% of all finance. By contrast LDCs received only 33% and many LDCs receiving negligible or no finance. – Extractive and short-term trade
http://ugbs.ug.edu.gh/ugbsfaculty/profile-faculty_member/abor-joshua-yindenaba http://ugbs.ug.edu.gh/ugbsfaculty/profile-faculty_member/amidu-mohammed A recently published paper of Mr. Haruna Issahaku, Professor Joshua Yindenaba Abor and Professor Mohammed Amidu find that: 1. Remittances stimulate economic growth only in low income and lower middle-income countries. 2. Remittances together with domestic institutions in low income and lower middle-income countries promote growth. 3. Institutions in upper middle and high-income countries act as substitutes to remittances to promote growth.
http://www.ids.ac.uk/person/stephany-griffith-jones https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/jos%C3%A9-antonio-ocampo The research conducted by Professor Stephany Griffith-Jones and Professor Jose Antonio Ocampo argues that capital account liberalization involves significant risks as developing countries, and especially low-income ones, are subject to strongly pro-cyclical capital flows. The financial instability, real macroeconomic instability and limited policy space for counter-cyclical policies that capital flows generate is a strong argument of why low-income countries should be very cautious in the capital account
http://www.issoufsoumare.com/ In a working paper produced by Desire Kanga, Victor Murinde, Lemma Senbet & Issouf Soumaré, the authors found the presence of cross-border pan-Afircan banks to increase banking competition and firms’ access to financing in WAEMU banking system.
