Volume/Issue: 2016/11
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Montfort Mlachila
,
Ahmat Jidoud
,
Monique Newiak
,
Bozena Radzewicz-Bak
, and
Misa Takebe
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
14
September
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475532401.087
ISBN: 9781475532401
This paper discusses how sub-Saharan Africa's financial sector developed in the past few decades, compared with other regions. Sub-Saharan African countries have made substantial progress in financial development o...
Volume/Issue: 2016/11
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Montfort Mlachila
,
Ahmat Jidoud
,
Monique Newiak
,
Bozena Radzewicz-Bak
, and
Misa Takebe
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
14
September
2016
ISBN: 9781475532401
This paper discusses how sub-Saharan Africa's financial sector developed in the past few decades, compared with other regions. Sub-Saharan African countries have made substantial progress in financial development o...
Volume/Issue: 2015/235
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Adrian Alter
, and
Boriana Yontcheva
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
09
November
2015
ISBN: 9781484317556
This paper examines financial inclusion and development in the CEMAC. We explore the level of financial inclusion in the CEMAC through a benchmarking exercise.We construct a measure of financial development gap and...
Volume/Issue: 2009/89
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Fuad Hasanov
, and
Rabah Arezki
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
April
2009
ISBN: 9781451872361
Oil exporters have run large current account surpluses. We explore oil exporters' role in our understanding and the resolution of global imbalances. Current account dynamics are estimated for oil-exporting countrie...
Volume/Issue: 2009/93
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Lynge Nielsen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
April
2009
ISBN: 9781451872408
The paper provides estimates of global relative poverty trends from 1970 onwards. Relative poverty is shown to have decreased significantly, but at the same time there has been a worsening poverty outcome among up...
Volume/Issue: 2009/20
Series: IMF Staff Position Notes
Author(s):
Dimitre Milkov
,
Rafael Portillo
,
Plamen Iossifov
, and
John Wakeman-Linn
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
22
July
2009
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781455255252.004
ISBN: 9781455255252
The financial sector of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) has been seriously affected by the global financial crisis and resulting global recession. This note assesses the response of CEMA...
Volume/Issue: 2015/235
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Adrian Alter
, and
Boriana Yontcheva
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
09
November
2015
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781484317556.001
ISBN: 9781484317556
This paper examines financial inclusion and development in the CEMAC. We explore the level of financial inclusion in the CEMAC through a benchmarking exercise.We construct a measure of financial development gap and...
Volume/Issue: 2009/89
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Fuad Hasanov
, and
Rabah Arezki
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
April
2009
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451872361.001
ISBN: 9781451872361
Oil exporters have run large current account surpluses. We explore oil exporters' role in our understanding and the resolution of global imbalances. Current account dynamics are estimated for oil-exporting countrie...
Volume/Issue: 2009/93
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Lynge Nielsen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
April
2009
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451872408.001
ISBN: 9781451872408
The paper provides estimates of global relative poverty trends from 1970 onwards. Relative poverty is shown to have decreased significantly, but at the same time there has been a worsening poverty outcome among up...
Volume/Issue: 2016/111
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Dalia Hakura
,
Mumtaz Hussain
,
Monique Newiak
,
Vimal Thakoor
, and
Fan Yang
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
08
June
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781484382349.001
ISBN: 9781484382349
A growing body of empirical evidence suggests that inequality-income or gender related-can
impede economic growth. Using dynamic panel regressions and new time series data, this paper
finds that both income and gen...