TY - BOOK AU - Gulde,Anne-Marie AU - Pattillo,Catherine A. AU - Christensen,Jakob ED - International Monetary Fund. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Sub-Saharan Africa: financial sector challenges AV - HG187.5.A357 G85 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - [Washintgon, D.C.] PB - International Monetary Fund KW - Finance KW - Africa, Sub-Saharan KW - Financial institutions KW - Financial services industry KW - Monetary policy KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-49); Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries N2 - Financial sectors in low-income sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are among the world's least developed. In fact, assets in most low-income African countries are smaller than those held by a single medium-sized bank in an industrial country. The absence of deep, efficient financial markets seriously challenges policy making, hinders poverty alleviation, and constrains growth. This book argues that building efficient and sound financial sectors in SSA countries will improve Africa's economic prospects. Based on a review of the key features of financial systems, it discusses the main obstacles and challenges that financial structures pose for SSA economies and recommends steps that could address major shortcomings in implementing the reform agenda UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3012482 ER -