Year: 2015
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The expansion of financial access has been promoted as a method to promote financial development for structural transformation.However, the linkages between expansion of financial access, financial development and financial stability are under-researched.The thesis seeks to contribute to research on these relationships using a mixed methodology with quantitative analysis of the balance sheet structures of institutions and interpretative fieldwork material from Kenya.Its finds that as financial access has expanded there have been increases in credit, liquidity and foreign exchange risk at institutions and increasing systemic risks.Private capital inflows have encouraged these trends.There is limited mitigation of these risks through improved institutional
Author: Tyson, Judith
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2612376611