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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788334603321

Autore

Ghura Dhaneshwar

Titolo

Financial Deepening in the CFA Franc Zone : : The Role of Institutions / / Dhaneshwar Ghura, Kangni Kpodar, Raju Singh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-5476-9

1-4527-0365-5

1-4518-7260-7

9786612843280

1-282-84328-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (19 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

KpodarKangni

SinghRaju

Soggetti

Finance - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Finance: General

Money and Monetary Policy

Public Finance

Industries: Financial Services

Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General

Financial Institutions and Services: General

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Finance

Public finance & taxation

Monetary economics

Financial sector development

Legal support in revenue administration

Credit

Financial sector

Credit registry

Financial services industry

Revenue

Credit ratings



Africa, French-speaking Economic policy

Central African Republic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Recent Developments; III. Theoretical Background and Review of the Literature; IV. Empirical Analysis; A. Data; B. Methodology and Main Results; V. Summary and Conclusions; References

Sommario/riassunto

During the 1980s and early 1990s many Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries undertook reforms to promote financial sector deepening. Nevertheless, financial sectors in SSA countries remain among the shallowest in the world and, within Sub-Saharan Africa, financial depth in the CFA franc zone is even more limited. This paper sets out to investigate empirically factors that may explain why financial depth in the CFA franc zone is shallower than in the rest of SSA using panel data for a sample of 40 countries for 1992-2006. The results indicate that the gap in financial development between the CFA franc zone countries and the rest of SSA can be explained by differences in institutional quality (e.g., availability of credit information, and strength and enforcement of property rights), variables that policy makers can influence.