Images play a key role for scholarly work in many ways? they facilitate communication and support understanding or make research results look more appealing. At the same time powerful image-editing pr
'La Finance au service de l'Afrique' brosse un tableau panoramique des systemes financiers africains, tant ceux qui operent sur une grande echelle (?la finance au service de la croissance?) que ceux q
'Making Finance Work for Africa' takes a panoramic view of Africa's financial systems, both at the large scale ('finance for growth') and the small scale ('finance for all').Things are changing for th
This edited volume contains eight studies of financial sector challenges in Africa that served as background studies for Financing Africa: Through the Crisis and Beyond. One of the major challenges fo
This handbook presents a timely collection of original studies on relevant themes, policies and developments in European banking. The contributors analyse how the crisis years have had a long lasti
The Handbook of Finance and Development provides a thorough assessment of the existing research on the relationship between the financial system and economic growth. Containing chapters on theory, emp
Access to financial services in Brazil has been relatively stable over the past ten years, despite the banking sector contraction of the late 1990s. Wide geographic variations in the supply of banking
Financing Africa takes stock of Africa’s financial systems in light of recent changes in the global financial system –including the greater risk aversion of international investors, a shift in economi
As a result of the recent financial crisis, there has been significant public debate on the role of the financial sector in bringing about the “Great Depression.” More generally, there has been debate
