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Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Kenya: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Selected Issues
Keywords:
trading environment; D. policy effort; gender imbalance; wage employment; market share; Exports; Women; Gender inequality; Competition; Global; Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa
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Financial Intermediation Costs in Low-Income Countries: The Role of Regulatory, Institutional, and Macroeconomic Factors
Mr. Tigran Poghosyan
We analyze factors driving persistently higher financial intermediation costs in low-income countries (LICs) relative to emerging market (EMs) country comparators. Using the net interest margin as a proxy for financial intermediation costs at the bank level, we find that within LICs a substantial part of the variation in interest margins can be explained by bank-specific factors: margins tend to increase with higher riskiness of credit portfolio, lower bank capitalization, and smaller bank size. Overall, we find that concentrated market structures and lack of competition in LICs banking systems and institutional weaknesses constitute the key impediments preventing financial intermediation costs from declining. Our results provide strong evidence that policies aimed at fostering banking competition and strengthening institutional frameworks can reduce intermediation costs in LICs.
Keywords:
WP; interest margin; LICS bank; bank characteristic; dependent variable; Net Interest Margins; Banks; Low Income Countries; Emerging Economies; entry application; margin determinant; bank efficiency; intermediation service; Credit risk; Reserve requirements; Loan loss provisions; Inflation; Competition; Western Hemisphere
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Assessing Bank Competition within the East African Community
Sarah Sanya
and
Matthew Gaertner
This paper is an empirical analysis of competitiveness in the banking system of four out of the five East African Community (EAC) countries2. The results show that the degree of competition is low due to a combination of structural and socio-economic factors. By way of preview, the analysis ranks the countries in terms of banking sector competitiveness in the following order: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.
Keywords:
WP; return on assets; concentration ratio; EAC country; bank competition; East African Community; Competition; Banking; Financial sector; H-statistic; Lerner Index; bank regulation; bank performance indicator; EAC banking systems; bank freedom; banks output; Commercial banks; Foreign banks; Credit; Africa
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Tanzania: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund
This Selected Issues paper analyzes trends in Tanzania’s external competitiveness and export performance. Using various multilateral and bilateral real exchange rates, the paper looks at developments in Tanzania’s real effective exchange rate since 1990. It evaluates the misalignment in the real exchange rate based on results from an equilibrium real exchange rate model that accounts for changes in the economic fundamentals. An analysis of other qualitative aspects of competitiveness is presented, and an assessment of public domestic debt evolution in Tanzania is also provided.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; Tanzania; debt; debt position; domestic debt; Tanzania government; US. dollar; position in Tanzania; Real exchange rates; Domestic debt; Real effective exchange rates; Africa