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  "title": "Assessing Bank Competition within the East African Community",
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      "content": "- Degree of competition in the banking systems surveyed is low.\n- Low competition is attributed to a combination of structural and socio-economic factors."
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      "content": "- Kenya\n- Tanzania\n- Uganda\n- Rwanda"
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      "content": "- Subjects: Banking, Commercial banks, Competition, Credit, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Financial services, Foreign banks, Money\n- Keywords: Africa, bank competition, bank freedom, bank performance indicator, bank regulation, Banking, banks output, Commercial banks, Competition, concentration ratio, Credit, EAC banking systems, EAC country, East African Community, Financial sector, Foreign banks, H-statistic, Lerner Index, return on assets, WP\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Wp1232\n  - Wp1232 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Wp1232 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/assessing-bank-competition-within-the-east-african-community-25680"
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    "Authors: Sarah Sanya, Matthew Gaertner",
    "Published: January 1, 2012",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781463933173.001",
    "This paper is an empirical analysis of competitiveness in the banking system of four out of the five East African Community (EAC) countries.",
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