The role of cross-border banking in fostering financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa
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2015
Authors
Mugimba, Longay Bonaventure
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Cross border banking (CBB), though not a new phenomenon from a historical point of view, has
been gaining in importance in the past decade or so in the world. This situation has engendered
a heated debate about its bene ts between its sympathizers and antagonists. In particular,
relying on the literature, this report investigates its role in fostering nancial inclusion in sub-
Saharan Africa. Using a data sample of ve sub-Saharan economies and after applying a trend
analysis (i.e. an analysis involving comparison of the same variable over a signi cant period of
time to detect a general pattern between associated variables), and a correlation test (i.e the
degree to which two or more variables are linearly associated) to it; this report nds that indeed
cross border banking does have a bene cial role in fostering nancial inclusion in this region of
the world with the e ect of CBB on nancial inclusion being more important in the following
order for the ve countries: Zambia (2.4319 points), Ghana (1.6892 points), Uganda (1.2355
points), Tanzania (0.5258 points), and Mozambique (0.4588 points). Furthermore, the report
also stresses the importance of a nancial inclusion that induces inclusive economic growth for
job creation (i.e. the ability of nancial institutions, banks here, to e ectively intermediate) in
the region and thus suggests a way of testing for the role of cross border banking in furthering
nancial inclusion.
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Thesis (M.M. (Finance & Investment))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Graduate School of Business Administration, 2015.