http://www.connecting-africa.net/This feed is custom made. It contains recent additions: experts on Africa, publications about Africa and organizations.en-usSun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTSun, 05 Sep 2010 04:54:28 GMThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssGlobal-Connections webserviceconnecting-africa@ascleiden.nlhttp://www.connecting-africa.net/http://www.connecting-africa.net/Search/ArticlesSet.aspx?query=TermQuery$identifiers$oai:connecting-africa.net:oai:RePEc:voj:journl:v:55:y:2008:i:3:p:369-381&t={0}http://oai.repec.openlib.org/?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:RePEc:voj:journl:v:55:y:2008:i:3:p:369-381&metadataPrefix=oai_dc2010-09-03T09:15:03ZThe financial reform is one of the most important reforms prescribed by the Washington Consensus. With its internal and external components, it occurs in the final stages of the process of economic liberalization. In this work, and after listing, briefly, the causes of financial liberalization, we are going to study in a second section financial development and bank performance in four countries of the MENA region: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Egypt. In this context, we will explore some criteria for determining if the banking sector is performing as the level of intermediation margins, the state of the banking service, and so on. The third section will be subject to an assessment of financial liberalization since the start of reforms to the present day, while focusing on the impact of liberalization on the investment, savings, capital entry, and so on. Our conclusion will be in the form of recommendations aimed at showing that overall reforms, significant progress have been made in recent years but much remains to be done.deletehttp://www.connecting-africa.net/Search/ArticlesSet.aspx?query=TermQuery$identifiers$oai:connecting-africa.net:oai:RePEc:pra:mprapa:24027&t={0}http://oai.repec.openlib.org/?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:RePEc:pra:mprapa:24027&metadataPrefix=oai_dc2010-09-03T09:15:03ZYouth unemployment in South Africa is high. We investigate whether one of the reasons may be that the wages young people want or need are above those that they could reasonably expect to earn given their characteristics. Unlike previous work on the relationship between reservation wages and unemployment we differentiate between wages in different sizes of firms. Larger firms pay more and thus, even if reservation wages are similar to average predicted wages they may be above wages that young people could expect to earn in smaller firms. We find that this is the case.deletehttp://www.connecting-africa.net/Search/ArticlesSet.aspx?query=TermQuery$identifiers$oai:connecting-africa.net:oai:RePEc:fpr:2020br:18(14)&t={0}http://oai.repec.openlib.org/?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:RePEc:fpr:2020br:18(14)&metadataPrefix=oai_dc2010-09-03T09:15:03ZAgriculture is the largest economic sector in most African countries and remains the best opportunity for economic growth and poverty alleviation on the continent. Yet, sadly, the sector has been in decline over the past 40 years, and poor farmers have largely remained poor. This failure is due to many factors, including collapsed agricultural development banks, corruption, inadequate infrastructure, and poor soils and seeds. It has also occurred because smallholder farmers lack access to critical information, market facilitation, and financial intermediation services. This brief reviews the DrumNet Project and its approach to improving farmers’ access to finance in Kenya. The project has found that financing small-scale farmers is challenging given the cost and risk associated with serving rural, relatively isolated clients. Lending becomes increasingly feasible, however, in a supply-chain approach in which farmers are connected to a formal network of buyers, retailers, and financiers.deletehttp://www.connecting-africa.net/Search/ArticlesSet.aspx?query=TermQuery$identifiers$oai:connecting-africa.net:oai:RePEc:imf:imfwpa:10/157&t={0}http://oai.repec.openlib.org/?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:RePEc:imf:imfwpa:10/157&metadataPrefix=oai_dc2010-09-03T09:15:03ZThis paper develops a full-fledged cost-benefit analysis of monetary integration, and applies it to the currency unions actively pursued in Africa. The benefits of monetary union come from a more credible monetary policy, while the costs derive from real shock asymmetries and fiscal disparities. The model is calibrated using African data. Simulations indicate that the proposed EAC, ECOWAS, and SADC monetary unions bring about net benefits to some potential members, but modest net gains and sometimes net losses for others. Strengthening domestic macroeconomic frameworks is shown to provide some of the same improvements as monetary integration, reducing the latter’s relative attractiveness.delete