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A Review And Appraisal Of Nigeria's Experience With Financial Sector Reform, M. O. Ojo

CBN Occasional Papers

The primary aim of the paper Is to highlight the policy reforms In Nigeria's financial sector since 1986, assess the results of the reform programme, and Identify the lessons that can be learned from the policy initiatives. The reform package was introduced in 1986 against the background of prolonged macro-economic distortions and economic deterioration, especially during the first half of the 1980s. Financial sector reforms under the aegis of the Structural Adjustment Programme were designed to induce more domestic savings and reduce the distortions in investment decisions. To this end, measures were introduced between 1986 and 1992 (the period covered …

Central Bank Of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin, June 1993, Central Bank Of Nigeria

CBN Statistical Bulletin

This volume/year presents data on the Money and Banking sub-sector, including central banking, financial markets, non-bank financial institutions, clearing house activities, merchant and commercial banking, and public finance statistics. The data includes consolidation of commercial and merchant banks' first and second schedule statistical returns, computation of liquidity ratio, cash reserve ratio, loan/deposit ratio, proportion of loans to rural borrowers and small-scale enterprises, and reconstitution of the Central Bank's balance sheet. The data also indicates the level of banking habit in the industry.

It further explains the classification of insurance companies by their business type, including whole life, non-life, and mixed …