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A look offshore: unpacking the routes of misinvoicing in international tradeWe study whether misinvoicing in international trade is reflected in cross-border bank accounts as reported by offshore financial centres...
Misinvoicing Banking Offshore financial centresWorking Paper
The financial inclusion agenda: Examining the role of conventional banks in deepening access to formal creditUsing a unique district-level panel dataset, we investigate the effect of banking system penetration on financial inclusion in Ghana...
Banking Financial inclusion Access to creditWorking Paper
Savings By and For the Poor: A Research Review and AgendaThe 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...
Banking Choice ConsumptionJournal Article
Savings by and for the Poor: A Research Review and AgendaPart of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics
Banking Choice ConsumptionWorking Paper
The European Investment Bank: Lessons for Developing CountriesThe paper considers the experience of the European Investment Bank and addresses policy lessons for developing countries as they seek finance for development...
Banking Economic development EnvironmentBlog
Making Finance the Servant not the Master
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 for the social good...
Banking Capitalism Public debtWorking Paper
Efficiency of Commercial Banks in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Domestic and Foreign BanksUtilizing the stochastic frontier approach, this study conducts a comparative analysis of profit efficiency and cost inefficiency of commercial banks operating in 29 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries by bank ownership (domestic bank, SSA foreign ba...
Banking Financial institutions Financial institutions, InternationalJournal Article
Financial Liberalization and Banking Sector Efficiency in India: A Fourier Flexible functional form and Stochastic Frontier ApproachThe Indian financial sector has undergone a significant structural transformation since the initiation of financial liberalization during 1990’s. It brought significant changes in the financial sector in general and banking in particular...
Financial liberalization Banking Cost effectivenessWorking Paper
Foreign Banks and Credit Volatility: The Case of Latin American CountriesForeign bank presence has substantially increased in Latin America during the second half of the 1990s, which has prompted an intense debate on its banking and macroeconomic consequences...
Banking Credit Money supplyBlog
Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development: Looking at the MDGs from a Different Angle?
George Mavrotas While recent years have witnessed new interest in the finance–growth nexus, the relationship between domestic resource mobilization and financial development remains relatively unexplored...
Banking Capital market Financial institutionsBlog
Finance and Development: What we Know and What we Need to KnowSvetlana Andrianova and Panicos Demetriades This article, written before the current international financial crisis and with developing countries in mind, is particularly topical because its policy implications are now, if anything, even more relevan...
Banking Financial institutions Institutional economicsJournal Article
Ownership Reform, Foreign Competition and Efficiency of Chinese Commercial Banks: A Non-parametric ApproachPart of Journal Special Issue The Rise of China and India
Banking Competition Cost effectivenessWorking Paper
Ownership Reform, Foreign Competition, and Efficiency of Chinese Commercial Banks: A Non-Parametric ApproachSince China joined the WTO in 2001, the pressure for bank reforms has mounted as China ought to fully open up its financial market to foreign competition by 2006...
Banking Competition Cost effectivenessBook
Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial DevelopmentThis significant and timely volume offers crucial insights into the constantly evolving debate within the international development community regarding the mobilization of domestic resources and the crucial role that financial development can and sho...
Banking Capital market Financial institutions