This paper summarizes financial inclusion across Africa. First, it provides a brief overview of
the African financial sector landscape. Second, it uses the Global Financial Inclusion …

Financial inclusion is gaining attention in African policy circles in view of the recent African
growth renaissance, but which has been characterised as non-inclusive. While not …

The role and relevance of gender in financial inclusion has been an evolving area of
research in recent times. Although there are several cross-country studies on this aspect …

This paper examines the causal relationship between financial development and economic
growth for 21 African countries within a framework which also accounts for international …

Abstract The 17 Sustainable Development Goals announced by the United Nations are
important guides for the development processes of developing countries. However …

This paper takes stock of the current state of banking systems across Sub-Saharan Africa
and discusses recent developments including innovations that might help Africa leapfrog …

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) struggle to obtain credit when credit ratings
and collateral are used as criteria to assess their credit applications. In the context of Africa …

Globally, over 1.4 billion adult people remain unbanked. This worrisome phenomenon was
exacerbated by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, which further created a new …

This paper uses cross-country firm-level surveys to gauge access to financial services and
the importance of financing constraints for African enterprises. We compare access to …

African bond markets have been steadily growing in recent years, but nonetheless remain
undeveloped. African countries would benefit from greater access to financing and deeper …