...Kathrin Berensmann; Florence Dafe; Ulrich Volz Even though the significance of LCBMs in SSA for long-term investments is currently limited compared to alternative sources of long-term financing, LCBMs represent a promising instrument to provide long-term financing in the future. There may...

... development banks regulation supervision long-term finance Finance provides a particularly challenging area for policy design and research, especially if placed in the context of those countries’ needs for development. The policy challenges and research needs are very large, due in part to a major...

... household access to services regulation economic growth long-term finance Infrastructure is essential to increase economic productivity and achieve economic growth, therefore its great importance for the African continent. It has an impact on growth through direct and indirect channels...

... of the key constraints for ensuring sufficient levels of investment, and channelling it to the most productive sectors of the economy or those whose productivity is likely to increase most, is lack of sufficient amounts of long-term financing for productive investment. One effective way in which such finance...