The Basel Capital Accords in Developing Countries: Challenges for Development Finance

✍ Scribed by Ricardo Gottschalk

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is about the new capital adequacy framework -- known as Basel II -- approved by the Basel Committee in 2004. It aims to discuss Basel II implementation in different categories of developing countries, including emerging market economies, such as Brazil and low-income countries such as Ethiopia and Zambia.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Notes on the Contributors......Page 13
1 Introduction: Why Basel Matters......Page 16
2 Prudential Norms for the Financial Sector: Is Development a Missing Dimension? The Cases of Brazil and India......Page 31
3 Basel Rules in Brazil: What are the Implications for Development Finance?......Page 49
4 Basel Norms on Capital Adequacy, the Banking Sector and Impact on Credit for SMEs and the Poor in India......Page 66
5 Basel II Implementation in Low-Income Countries: Challenges and Effects on SME Development......Page 90
6 Capital Adequacy Requirements in Emerging Markets......Page 112
7 Basel II: Regulatory Gaps, Pro-Cyclicality and Bank Credit Levels to Developing Countries......Page 156
8 Basel II and Development Finance: Establishing Regional Guarantee Funds to Ease Access to Credit for SMEs......Page 171
9 The Basel Capital Frameworks: Bringing Development Finance to the Agenda......Page 184
Bibliography......Page 193
B......Page 200
C......Page 201
F......Page 202
L......Page 203
P......Page 204
Z......Page 205