General introduction by George Kararach, Emmanuel Pinto Moreira and Victor Murinde -- Chapter 1 : Financial development, economic growth and poverty reduction: general theory and recent advances -- Chapter 2 . Globalizing Banking Standards and the Impact of Recent Global Regulatory Initiatives...

This study uses loan-level data on syndicated lending to a large sample of developing countries between 1993 and 2017 to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), that is, their ability to crowd-in capital from private creditors. Controlling for a large set of...