One of the key features of today's global economy is an 'offshore world'of financial structures,
institutions and techniques designed to provide secrecy, asset protection and tax exemption …

Less than thirty years after civil war and genocide, the government of post-conflict Rwanda
has achieved a remarkable level of state-building and economic growth. This thesis uses a …

Purpose In this paper, the authors examine the association between the banking regulatory
regime and the quality of bank earnings. We further investigate whether the banking agency …

The objective of this paper is to understand the RRA's relatively high, and yet uneven,
performance. While the organization is effective regarding overall revenue collection, and …

Executive summary Illicit financial flows (IFFs) remain a major issue in extractive economies
such as Nigeria. Furthermore, strict capital controls and fixed exchange rates can often …

This thesis looks at the relationship between National Development Banks (NDBs),
governments, financial market participants, and non-financial firms in Africa. Despite rapidly …

This paper employs the Factor Augmented Vector Autoregressive (FAVAR) approach to
investigate the effectiveness of monetary policy and macroeconomic volatility in Rwanda …