Were the nigerian banking reforms of 2005 a success ... and for the poor?
By: Lisa D. Cook
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16890; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16890.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The Nigerian banking system was in crisis for much of the 1990's and early 2000's.  The reforms of 2005 were ambitious in simultaneously attempting to address safety, soundness, and accessibility.  This paper uses published and new survey data through 2008 to investigate whether bank consolidation and other measures achieved their stated goals and whether they also enhanced development, efficiency, and profitability.  Following the reforms, banks are better capitalized, more efficient, and less involved in the public sector but not more profitable and accessible to the poor.  While there is greater supervision and less fragility, recorded distress was artificially low.  The improved macroeconomic environment also explains some of the variation in observed outcomes and likely enhanced the efficacy of reforms"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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