The Economics of Banking and Finance in Africa: Developments in Africa's Financial Systems (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031041617)

Joshua Yindenaba Abor is a financial economist with many years of expertise, mainly in development finance and economics research, as well as in senior-level practitioner, policy and consulting roles. He is Professor of Finance and former Dean at the University of Ghana Business School. He is Adjunct Professor of Development Finance at the University of Stellenbosch Business School. He is an External Fellow at the Centre for Global Finance, SOAS University of London, and a researcher with the African Economic Research Consortium as well as a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has held Visiting Scholar positions at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in Washington DC and is a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana.

Charles Komla Delali Adjasi is Professor of Development Finance and Economics at the University of Stellenbosch Business (USB) School in Cape Town South Africa, where he served as Head of Development Finance Programmes from January 2013-June 2017. He is also a Visiting Professor at ENSEA Cote d'Ivoire and an AFREXIM Bank Research Fellow. He has previously been a Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, University of Groningen in the Netherlands. His research focuses on financial markets, firm productivity and household welfare development in Africa. He has published widely in reputable journals, a co-edited one book and co-authored another.