Resolving the African Financial Development Gap : Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya

With extensive country and firm-level data sets, this paper first documents that the financial sectors of most Sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. The paper also finds th...

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Main Authors: Allen, Franklin, Carletti, Elena, Cull, Robert, Qian, Jun, Senbet, Lemma, Valenzuela, Patricio
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/18207012/resolving-african-financial-development-gap-cross-country-comparisons-within-country-study-kenya
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16043