 | Evolving Banking Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa : Key Features and Challenges Author/Editor: Mauro Mecagni, Daniela Marchettini, Rodolfo Maino. Release Date:September, 2015 Banking in SSA has undergone very significant changes over the last two decades. Financial liberalization and related reforms, upgrades in institutional and more recently the expansion of more...
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|  | Dollarization in Sub-Saharan Africa : Experiences and Lessons Author/Editor: Mauro Mecagni, Juan S Corrales, Jemma Dridi, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu, Patrick A Imam, Justin Matz, Carla Macario, Rodolfo Maino, Yibin Mu, Ashwin Moheeput, Futoshi Narita, Marco Pani, Manuel Rosales Torres, Sebastian Weber, Etienne B Yehoue. Release Date:May, 2015 Dollarization—the use of foreign currencies as a medium of exchange, store of value, or unit of account—is a notable feature of financial development under macroeconomically fragile conditions. more...
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|  | Pan-African Banks : Opportunities and Challenges for Cross-Border Oversight Author/Editor: Charles Enoch, Paul Henri Mathieu, Mauro Mecagni, Jorge I Canales Kriljenko. Release Date:April, 2015 Pan-African banks are expanding rapidly across the continent, creating cross-border networks, and having a systemic presence in the banking sectors of many Sub-Saharan African countries. These more...
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| .jpg) | Issuing International Sovereign Bonds : Opportunities and Challenges for Sub-Saharan Africa Author/Editor: Mauro Mecagni, Jorge Iván Canales Kriljenko, Cheikh A. Gueye, Yibin Mu, Masafumi Yabara, Sebastian Weber. Release Date:June, 2014 This African Department Paper examines the rise in international sovereign bonds issued by African frontier economies and recommends policies for potential first-time issuers. more...
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|  | The Persistence of Capital Account Crises Author/Editor: Mauro Mecagni, Ruben Atoyan, David Hofman. Release Date:May, 2009 This study contributes to the literature on capital account crises in two ways. First, our analysis of crisis episodes between 1994 and 2002 establishes a clear relationship between the persistence more...
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|  | The Duration of Capital Account Crises—An Empirical Analysis Author/Editor: David Hofman, Ruben Atoyan, Dimitri Tzanninis, Mauro Mecagni. Release Date:November, 2007 This paper examines the duration of capital account crises. We develop a new index to identify both the start and the end of these crises. Applying the index to a sample of 18 crisis episodes, we more...
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|  | Sovereign Debt Restructuring and Debt Sustainability : An Analysis of Recent Cross-Country Experience Author/Editor: Harald Finger, Mauro Mecagni. Release Date:April, 2007 Restoring a country's debt to a sustainable path after a sovereign debt restructuring is key to ensuring a credible and durable exit from the crisis. In recent years, a number of countries have more...
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|  | Thailand : The Road to Sustained Growth Author/Editor: Erik Offerdal, Kalpana Kochhar, Louis Dicks-Mireaux, Jianping Zhou, Mauro Mecagni, Balázs Horváth. Release Date:December, 1996 Since the mid-1960s, Thailand's growth performance has been exceptional. Although hard hit by the external shocks fo the late 1970s and the early 1980s that proved severely destabilizing to many more...
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|  | Disinflation in Transition Economies : The Role of Relative Price Adjustment Author/Editor: Sharmini Coorey, Mauro Mecagni, Erik Offerdal. Release Date:December, 1996 In light of the persistence of moderate inflation in many transition economies, this paper analyzes whether inflation resulted from insufficiently tight financial policies and wage pressures or from more...
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|  | Reinvigorating Growth in Developing Countries : Lessons from Adjustment Policies in Eight Economies Author/Editor: Kalpana Kochhar, Erik Offerdal, Louis Dicks-Mireaux, Mauro Mecagni, Jianping Zhou, Balázs Horváth, David John Goldsbrough, Sharmini Coorey. Release Date:August, 1996 This study examines the links between adjustment policies and growth in a small group of developing countries- Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, India, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, and Thailand - during 1970 more...
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