Although there has been research looking at the relationship between the structure of the financial system and economic growth, much less work has dealt with the importance of bank-based versus market-based financial systems for poverty and income distribution. Empirical evidence has indicated...

This paper tries to take into account two points of view of the litterature, the first one shows that financial development has positive effect on economic growth, and the second one stresses on the unfavourable effect of financial crisis. Our main assumption is that financial instability is...

This article investigates how financial development is beneficial to the reduction of poverty, on the one hand by promoting growth and on the other hand directly due to the Mac Kinnon “conduit effect”. But simultaneously financial development induces financial instability what is detrimental...

This article investigates how financial development helps to reduce poverty directly through the McKinnon conduit effect and indirectly through economic growth. The results obtained with data for a sample of developing countries from 1966 through 2000 suggest that the poor benefit from the...

Many net oil-importing developing countries, particularly African economies, have faced economic difficulties with high oil price increases. As a case study, this paper assesses the distributional effects of a rise in various petroleum product prices in Mali using a standard computable general...