Finance and economic development: policy choices for developing countries

Asli Demirguc-Kunt

No 3955, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: The empirical literature on finance and development suggests that countries with better developed financial systems experience faster economic growth. Financial development-as captured by size, depth, efficiency, and reach of financial systems-varies sharply around the world, with large differences among countries at similar levels of income. This paper argues that governments play an important role in building effective financial systems and discusses different policy options to make finance work for development.

Keywords: Banks&Banking Reform; Economic Theory&Research; Macroeconomic Management; Achieving Shared Growth; Inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-fdg and nep-fmk
Date: 2006-06-01
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