Financial Sector Development in Sub-Saharan African Countries
October 1, 1998
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This study takes stock of progress made so far in the financial sectors of sub-saharan African countries. It recommends further reforms and specific measures in the areas of supervision, development of monetary operations and financial markets, external sector liberalization, central bank autonomy and accountability, payments system, and central bank accounting and auditing.
Subject: Banking, Central bank autonomy, Central bank legislation, Central banks, Commercial banks, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Financial sector, Fiscal accounting and reporting, Foreign exchange, Payment systems
Keywords: a number of bank, Africa, bank expansion, bank intermediation, central bank, Central bank autonomy, Central bank legislation, Commercial banks, exchange policy, Financial sector, government, government bank, government ownership, market, monetary policy, OP, payment, Payment systems, resource utilization, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa
Pages:
115
Volume:
1998
DOI:
Issue:
018
Series:
Occasional Paper No. 1998/018
Stock No:
S169EA0000000
ISBN:
9781557757586
ISSN:
0251-6365
