All articles in 'Finance and Banking'


Rethinking Regulation for Financial System Stabili...

Although the lack of sophistication of the African financial systems and markets may have helped blu...

2nd June 2009
Rethinking Regulation for Financial System Stabili...

There is growing recognition that the dispersion of credit risk by banks to a broader and more diver...

8th June 2009
Regional Payment and Settlement System (REPSS) to...

We are doing away with sending our money through banks in UK, USA, China, that was taking about five...

8th June 2009
Africa Gears for Domestic Resource Mobilisation

While seeking to obtain as much external financial support as it can get, Africa must also look inwa...

8th June 2009
The Changing Financial System Landscape in Africa

Financial systems generally develop along the lines of economic structures and relationships. Given...

12th June 2009
Uganda Economy Resilient to Shocks

The source of this strong growth in Uganda has continued to come from the industrial and services se...

15th June 2009
E A Country Budgets: Can We Afford the Stimulus?

Throwing big monies to inefficient (if not corrupt well connected) firms in the name of a stimulus p...

16th June 2009
Re-building a Healthy Financial System and Banking...

The most important factor in selecting a bank today is the ability to create a deep relationship; th...

23rd June 2009
SAA Should Quit State Patronage

When governments protect public enterprises by keeping out potential competitors or making taxpayers...

23rd June 2009
Regulation: Which Way for Africa's Banks?

There are differences between the expectations of home countries and host countries (and their regul...

25th June 2009
Mitigating Financial Crisis in Developing Countrie...

When the global financial crisis started, the idea of uncoupling developed economies from those of l...

28th June 2009
Not So Well Done, Prof. Soludo: Nigeria Former Cen...

If Nigeria pays attention to educational diplomas-which only contribute about 20% of what is needed...

6th July 2009
Reviving Zimbabwe Dollar Suicidal

Stores and supermarkets are overflowing with products, a rare phenomenon for many years under the ev...

7th July 2009
Surviving the Global Financial Crisis

Instead of fearing, blaming, hoping, maybe the best thing to do is to accept the fact that it has ha...

14th July 2009
Zimbabwe: In Defence of Mr Biti's Budget

Mr Biti's efforts are meant to reverse the impact of economic meltdown and to promote more economic...

27th July 2009
Do Currencies Float, Swim or just Sink?

Countries which are not willing to let the exchange rate fluctuate need a large cushion of reserves...

28th July 2009
Financial Feminism: Solution for Women?

Every woman, whether single, married, divorced or widowed ought to take immediate control of her own...

7th August 2009
The bottom is Near but a Long, Hard Slog Lies Ahea...

The world economy may soon stop shrinking, but recovery will not return us to the boom years that in...

11th August 2009
Africa’s Currencies: Lessons from the European Uni...

If African countries were to adopt only one policy to boost economic growth and improve macroeconomi...

7th September 2009
African Development Bank: Predator?

Rating is a not pure science and will never be when most of what happens in the world is seen along...

1st October 2009
Debt Forgiveness: Does it Help the Poor?

Debt forgiveness grants aid to those recipients that have best proven their ability to misuse that a...

19th October 2009
Can the Effects of Global Financial Crisis be Miti...

During the past decades, many academics, professionals and policy makers (including the government)...

27th October 2009
Can the Effects of Global Financial Crisis be Miti...

The roles of the IMF should be reviewed to adapt to a new international financial environment which...

2nd November 2009
Foreign Aid Does More Harm than Good to Africa

Attempts by donors to impose their organizational structures on Africa create confusion - and force...

10th November 2009
If I Were the Finance Minister…

One of the lessons to be drawn from the financial crisis is that we must henceforth refrain from ove...

23rd November 2009
Economics and the Search for Values

No system in the world is sustainable if it is not underpinned by a sense of morals, ethics and valu...

16th November 2009
Incremental Innovation: 7 Small but Sure Steps to...

Why Banking Innovation?  Innovation is a powerful weapon of differentiation for financial instituti...

14th December 2009
The Explosive Mixture of Public Deficit and Low Sa...

It is private investment, not consumption that makes for the competitiveness of an economy.

8th January 2010
Private Firms: Engines of Economic Growth

South Africa is fast approaching a watershed moment as Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan prepares for...

18th January 2010
Global Recession: Is the Worst Over?

Economics is a dismal science because of the difficulty in getting the timing of monetary and fiscal...

26th January 2010
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African Perceptions of the Eur...