Extending Financial Inclusion in Africa

Table of Contents

1. An Overview of Financial Services Access and Usage in Africa
2. How Did Banks Evolve in Africa?
3. Financial Development in Africa: Is it demand-following or supply-leading?
4. The Role of Financial Markets and Institutions in Private Sector Development in Africa
5. Financial Markets and Institutions in Africa: Landscape and Financial Inclusion
6. A Survey of Microfinance Institutions and Informal Finance in Africa
7. Financial Sector Regulation and Governance in Africa
8. Macroeconomic Determinants of Financial Inclusion: Evidence Using Dynamic Panel Data Analysis
9. Financial Inclusion and Economic Growth: Evidence From a Panel of Selected African Countries
10. The Relationship Between Technology and Financial Inclusion: Cross-Sectional Evidence
11. Unintended Consequences of Financial Inclusion
12. Financial Inclusion and the Sustainable Development Goals
13. Alternative Financing Approaches and Regulation in Africa
14. The Potential of FinTech in Enabling Financial Inclusion

Authors

Daniel Makina Department of Finance, Risk Management and Banking, University of South Africa, South Africa. Daniel Makina is Professor of Finance at the University of South Africa. He holds a PhD from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and an MSc in Financial Economics from the University of London. His research interests are in banking, financial inclusion and migration financial economics and has published on these topics in reputed international journals such as Applied Financial Economics, Applied Economics, African Development Review, African Finance Journal, Migration Letters, International Migration, among others. He is co-author with Lawrence J. Gitman and others of the book Principles of Managerial Finance: Global and Southern African Perspectives. He also contributed the Chapter The Mortgage Market, Character and Trends in Africa to the International Encyclopaedia of Housing and Home. In 2017, he served as Guest Editor of the African Journal of Economic and Management Studies and won the Emerald Reviewer Literati Award.