Bank Restructuring in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bank Restructuring in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Jean-Jacques Deschamps
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Release: 2012
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A review of bank restructuring operations in seven countries of Sub-Saharan Africa - Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Mozambique indicates that not all these efforts have succeeded. Interventions to break-up or privatize dominant state-owned banks are, in some cases, still going on, years after initial actions were agreed upon with local authorities. Hence, the importance of drawing lessons from these experiences for other African countries undertaking similar efforts. The review represents the first systematic attempt by the World Bank to analyze and compare the outcomes of bank restructuring programs in individual countries in the region.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Ms.Catherine A. Pattillo
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2006-08-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781589065659

Financial sectors in low-income sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are among the world's least developed. In fact, assets in most low-income African countries are smaller than those held by a single medium-sized bank in an industrial country. The absence of deep, efficient financial markets seriously challenges policy making, hinders poverty alleviation, and constrains growth. This book argues that building efficient and sound financial sectors in SSA countries will improve Africa's economic prospects. Based on a review of the key features of financial systems, it discusses the main obstacles and challenges that financial structures pose for SSA economies and recommends steps that could address major shortcomings in implementing the reform agenda.

Financial liberalisation and bank restructuring in Sub-Saharan Africa

Financial liberalisation and bank restructuring in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Release: 1997
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States that intervention by African governments in the running of their economies bred inefficiences and distortions, and resulted in misallocation of resources to the least productive sectors, and lists ways in which growth was restricted (e.g. financial repression, income tax, state borrowing, etc). Presents a survey of theoretical and empirical issues, and uses case studies to give an overview of financial sector reforms in SSA.

Banking in Africa

Banking in Africa
Author: Martin Brownbridge
Publisher: Africa World Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780865436930

This book provides a review of the evolution of the post-independence banking system in Africa. There is a strong focus on the problems of restructuring of banking institutions and the management of the bad and non-performing assets of public sector institutions.

Resolving Nonperforming Loans in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Crisis

Resolving Nonperforming Loans in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Crisis
Author: Luc Eyraud
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1513576518

Sub-Saharan African countries are facing an unprecedented health and economic crisis that is likely to severely hurt credit quality and raise non-performing loans from already high levels. Banks have a critical role to play not only during the crisis by providing temporarily relief to businesses and households, but also during the recovery by supporting economic activity and facilitating the structural transformations engaged by the pandemic.

COVID-19 and the Response of Central Banks

COVID-19 and the Response of Central Banks
Author: Salewa Olawoye
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2023-01-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1802205373

COVID-19 and the Response of Central Banks analyses the reactions of central banks to the COVID-19 crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on how the pandemic has affected the economic performance of Sub-Saharan African countries, many of which were already struggling with growth and sustainability. The first part of the book covers countries within monetary unions such as Cameroon, Congo, Senegal, and Cote d'Ivoire. In the second half, countries with their own independent central banks, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Ghana, and Sierra Leone, are discussed. Chapters highlights the differences between Monetary Union membership and independent Central Banks in policymaking during health crises and explore the role of central banking in minimizing the deleterious effects.

Financial Policies and Economic Growth

Financial Policies and Economic Growth
Author: Peter J. Montiel
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Total Pages: 56
Release: 1995
Genre: Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Provides an overview of what is currently known about the relationship between financial-sector policies and economic growth and the state of such policies in present-day SSA. Uses six countries to present a summary description of financial structure in SSA.