Economic Impact

Apr

Webinar: Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the African Financial Sector

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A) is hosting a webinar on the impact of current health crisis on the African financial sector. The session will discuss in forward-looking terms how ongoing market turmoil and trade disruptions due to concerns about the impact of the coronavirus on the global economy will affect the African financial sector. […]

Nov

Financial Volatility, Macroprudential Regulation and Economic Growth in Low-Income Countries

Conference

University of Manchester CERDI FERDI and the West African Training Centre for Banking Studies (COFEB - BCEAO)

Dakar Senegal

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

The purpose of the conference is to present the research documents prepared during the project Volatility, Macroprudential Regulation and Economic Growth in Low-Income Countries and to discuss their implications for financial policies (especially macroprudential regulation) for sub-Saharan Africa. This research project intended to gain a better understanding of the aforementioned issues in relation to financial […]