This paper is prepared as part of the multi-donor Operationalising Pro-Poor Growth study, which is focusing on aiming to provide advice to governments on how to facilitate the involvement of poor people...
Financial market fragmentation and reforms in Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania. Ernest Aryeetey, Hemamala Hettige, Machiko Nissanke, and William Steel Civil liberties, democracy, and the performance...
This article reports the findings from surveys of formal and informal institutions and their clients in Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania. It investigates the hypothesis that reforming financially repressive...
This study investigates the apparent contradiction between the high propensity of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to identify finance as their primary constraint and the view of banks that SME...
Cette étude examine l’apparente contradiction entre la forte propension des petites et moyennes entreprises (PME) à identifier le financement comme étant leur principal problème et la perception des banques...
Ghana's Economic Recovery Program, launched in 1983, provided new opportunities and challenges to its indigenous private sector. Liberalization of markets opened up access to imports and other resources...