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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828974103321

Autore

Singh Raju Jan

Titolo

Financial deepening in the CFA Franc zone : the role of institutions / / prepared by Raju Jan Singh, Kangni Kpodar, and Dhaneshwar Ghura

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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (19 p.)

Collana

IMF working paper ; ; WP/09/113

Altri autori (Persone)

KpodarKangni

GhuraDhaneshwar

Disciplina

332.152

Soggetti

Finance - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Africa, French-speaking Economic policy

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.