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Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa Fragile States: Evidence from Panel Estimations

Author/Editor: Rodolfo Maino, Drilona Emrullahu.

Release Date:March, 2022

Fragile states in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face challenges to respond to the effects of climate shocks and rising temperatures. Fragility is linked to structural weaknesses, government failure, and more...



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Financial Repression is Knocking at the Door, Again

Author/Editor: Etibar Jafarov, Rodolfo Maino, Marco Pani.

Release Date:September, 2019

Financial repression (legal restrictions on interest rates, credit allocation, capital movements, and other financial operations) was widely used in the past but was largely abandoned in the more...



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Drivers of Cross-Border Banking in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author/Editor: Paul Henri Mathieu, Marco Pani, Shiyuan Chen, Rodolfo Maino.

Release Date:July, 2019

Using data collected from pan-African banks’ (PABs), balance sheets and other sources (Orbis, Fitch), this study identifies some key patterns of cross-border investment in bank subsidiaries by key more...



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FinTech in Sub-Saharan African Countries : A Game Changer?

Author/Editor: Amadou N Sy, Rodolfo Maino, Alexander Massara, Hector Perez Saiz, Preya Sharma.

Release Date:February, 2019

FinTech is a major force shaping the structure of the financial industry in sub-Saharan Africa. New technologies are being developed and implemented in sub-Saharan Africa with the potential to change more...



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Public Investment Efficiency in Sub-Saharan African Countries

Author/Editor: Karim Barhoumi, Ha Vu, Shirin Nikaein Towfighian, Rodolfo Maino.

Release Date:July, 2018

There is significant room to improve public investment efficiency in sub-Saharan Africa. Investment in sub-Saharan African countries is lagging vis-à-vis peers such as emerging and developing Asia more...



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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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Systemic Risk Assessment in Low Income Countries : Balancing Financial Stability and Development

Author/Editor: Daniela Marchettini, Rodolfo Maino.

Release Date:August, 2015

We propose a toolkit for the assessment of systemic risk buildup in low income countries. We show that, due to
non-linearity in the relationship between credit and financial stability, the 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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Sustaining more Inclusive Growth in the Republic of Congo

Author/Editor: Dalia S Hakura, Adrian Alter, Matteo Ghilardi, Rodolfo Maino, Cameron McLoughlin, Maximilien Queyranne.

Release Date:February, 2015

The Republic of Congo has seen dramatic improvement in its debt situation since 2010, following debt relief through the IMF and World Bank Heavily Indebted Poor Countries/Multilateral Debt Relief more...



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Islamic Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Status and Prospects

Author/Editor: Enrique Gelbard, Mumtaz Hussain, Rodolfo Maino, Yibin Mu, Etienne B. Yehoue.

Release Date:August, 2014

Islamic finance is a fast growing activity in world markets. This paper provides a survey on Islamic Finance in SSA. Ongoing activities include Islamic banking, sukuk issuances (to finance more...



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