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Financial institutions do not often build this trust, so African Americans use social networks to navigate unfamiliar financial systems through advice from family and friends (Pittman 2008). Getting Your House In Order was designed to address specific issues for African American PHC customers, which surveys revealed as: African Americans of.

DEEPENING AFRICAN FINANCIAL MARKETS FOR GROWTH AND INVESTMENT Karim Dahou, Haibado Ismael Omar, Mike Pfister This background paper is distributed as part of the official documentation for the Ministerial and Expert Roundtable of the NEPAD-OECD Africa Investment Initiative on 11-12 November 2009. The views.

Since 1988, African Economic Research Consortium has brought rigour and evidence to economic policy making in Africa through research, training and policy outreach. Today, we are one of the most active research and capacity building institutions in the world with a focus on Africa.

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MFI financial performance, especially in African countries, from 2004 to 2013. In the literature, the topics of microfinance stability and institutional efficiency have come under the spotlight for two main reasons: (1) the conceptual difference between financial stability (i.e. end status) and efficiency (i.e.

Research within librarian-selected research topics on African-American History from the Questia online library, including full-text online books, academic journals, magazines, newspapers and more.

The New Structural Economics Development Financing Research Paper Series aims to build the first comprehensive database of worldwide development finance institutions (DFIs) and foster original research on the rationales, operations, performance, and impact of DFIs to improve understanding of.

Why corruption matters: understanding causes, effects and how to address them Evidence paper on corruption January 2015. 1 Contents List of tables 3 Acknowledgements 4 Acronyms and abbreviations 5 Executive summary 6 Introduction 8 Objectives and key research questions 8 Methodological approach 8 1. Understanding corruption 12 2. Factors that facilitate corruption 14 2.1 Conceptualising.

This paper summarizes financial inclusion across Africa. First, it provides a brief overview of the African financial sector landscape. Second, it uses the Global Financial Inclusion Indicators (Global Findex) database to characterize adults in Africa that use formal and informal financial services and identify the barriers to formal account ownership.

Impact of multilateral development finance institutions on economic growth 1 1 Introduction Development finance institutions (DFIs) finance and promote private investment with the purpose of fostering economic growth and sustainable development while at the same time remaining financially viable in the long term.

Purpose: The paper discusses challenges, implications and prospects of research in institutions of higher education in Africa. It posits that research has been accorded insufficient attention and resources by many African governments and institutions of higher education by extension.

Financial Education and the Saving Behavior of African-American and Hispanic Households Annamaria Lusardi1 Department of Economics Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755 Tel: (603) 646-2099 September 2005 1This research project was supported by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration. I would like to thank Al.