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Financial Sector Reforms in Eight Countries: Issues and Results

By Vicente Galbis

December 1, 1995

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Vicente Galbis. Financial Sector Reforms in Eight Countries: Issues and Results, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1995) accessed November 8, 2024
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Summary

This paper examines financial sector reforms in eight developing countries--Argentina, Bulgaria, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda--and derives general lessons from their experience. The paper reviews the initial situation of these countries; describes the financial sector (and related) reforms carried out, including sequencing issues, and points out the unresolved questions; and examines the effects of reforms on monetary control and financial development, investment and growth and the efficiency of financial intermediation. The main recommendations are the need to persevere with macroeconomic stabilization through indirect monetary policy instruments, and the need to substantially strengthen prudential regulation and supervision and restructure and privatize or liquidate ailing financial institutions.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Financial regulation and supervision, Financial sector, Financial sector reform, Monetary policy, Monetary policy instruments, Privatization

Keywords: Adjustable peg, Authorities time, Central bank, Commercial banks, Exchange rate, Finance corporation, Financial sector, Financial sector reform, Government balance, Interest rate liberalization, Market economy, Monetary policy, Monetary policy instruments, Money market, Money stock, Private sector, Privatization, State bank, State dirigit economy, State trading, Supervisory authorities, Term-lending institutions, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    60

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1995/141

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1411995

  • ISBN:

    9781451928259

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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