Broadly speaking, the role of the financial sector in all economies is to channel resources from primary savers to investment projects. The importance of this financial sector role has received much attention in the recent literature on economic growth. A strong consensus has emerged in the last decade that well-functioning financial intermediaries have a significant impact on economic growth. ...

Targets of financial reform in emerging economy may be formulated in a different way; therefore, conclusions and recommendations of the Paper may depend both on actual material – macroeconomic (institutional) scenario and analysis of sectors and instruments – and on objectives of reformer. It is clear that there exists considerably developed discussion about bank reform, many materials about ot...

The financial sector has been viewed traditionally as either providing the “oil” for the “wheels of commerce” or as a parasite on the real sector of the economy where real productivity gains provide for increasing real wages and per capita incomes. The present paper takes a different route and attempts to an analysis of financial institutions on a par with the production sector of the economy. ...

The paper primarily investigates the interrelationship between financial sector development and poverty reduction in Ghana. This is done using time-series data from the World Development Indicators from 1970-2001. The main findings are, first, that even though financial sector development does not Granger-cause savings mobilization in Ghana, it induces poverty reduction; and second, that saving...

The paper primarily investigates the interrelationship between financial sector development and poverty reduction in Ghana. This is done using time-series data from the World Development Indicators from 1970-2001. The main findings are, first, that even though financial sector development does not Granger-cause savings mobilization in Ghana, it induces poverty reduction; and second, that saving...

Present paper intends to measure the determinants of performance of Indian financial sector. The performance variables of banking sector and microfinance institutions in India are studied over a study period of six years i.e. 2006-07 to 2011-12. The financial sector of India is gaining strength over the years and its contribution to growth is overwhelming. Banks are considered the main componen...

The paper compares British and US government policy initiatives to combat financial exclusion and promote community reinvestment. Financial exclusion, a general term for those who lack financial products, is concentrated in a small number of deprived urban areas in larger cities that are also starved of private sector investment. British policies, though they have drawn on US experience, predom...

the main purpose of this study is to identify the share of public sector accounting in accounting papers as well as its research areas. in addition, this study seeks to present more clear directions about the research opportunities of public sector accounting based on iran’s situation. in this study, research based journals are reviewed from 1992 to 2014. they are analyzed and categorized based...

This paper aims to examine the relationship between financial market development and agricultural sector in Iran. The study attempts to answer these questions empirically and try to shed some light on the roles of financial development as well as other conditional variables in agricultural sector. The results of this study shows that the financial market in agricultural sector, however there is...

We argue in this paper that the key to the recent sluggish growth in China is financial disintermediation. This has adversely affected investment in the non-state sector, which has been the source of much of the dynamism in the Chinese economy since reform. Our analysis suggests that the current reform strategy for China’s financial sector, while important, will not solve this fundamental probl...