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Principles for Shared Use of Mining Infrastructure: Tapping into Win-Win Solutions for Mining Companies, Governments, and Communities
On February 10, 2016, at the Investing in African Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town, South Africa, the Milk...
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Survey Brief: Rwandan Businesses Share Their Priorities for Capital-Market Development
With approximately 12 million citizens and a nominal GDP of just under $9 billion, the Rwandan economy is small...
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Minority-Owned Depository Institutions: A Market Overview
The Milken Institute and the US Small Business Administration formed an initiative to develop actionable soluti...
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Clearing a Path for Global Development Finance: Enabling Basel and Development Guarantees to Deliver on Sustainable Development Goals
On August 2, 2017, the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (CFM) convened a roundtable to discuss how...
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The Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets (PLUM): Increasing Minority Entrepreneurs Access to Capital
The Milken Institute and U.S. Small Business Administration Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets (PLU...
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Common Capital Market Infrastructure for East Africa: Options for the Way Forward
Growth in capital markets in the East African Community (EAC) has not kept up with the pace of economic growth....
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Can Stock Exchanges Support the Growth of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises? Lessons from India, South Africa, and Jamaica
Despite their importance in creating private-sector jobs and diversifying economies, small to medium-sized ente...
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How Resilient Are Sub-Saharan Countries to External Shocks?
Growth in most emerging economies did not take as hard a hit as expected during the great recession of 2008. Ho...
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Leaving Transferred Money on the Table: Will Remittance-Linked Financial Products Add Value to Development Financing?
For centuries migrant workers who send money home to their families have been a major source of inflows for dev...
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Capital Markets in the East African Community: Developing the Buy Side
Deep, liquid capital markets are fundamental to economic growth because they help channel the domestic savings ...
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Malaysia's Capital Market Masterplan, 2001-2010: A Case Study
This report, prepared for the Capital Market Authority of Rwanda, examines the process Malaysia’s government un...
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Framing the Issues: Developing Capital Markets in Rwanda
How should Rwanda develop its capital markets? This was the subject of a three-day roundtable discussion held i...
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Capital Markets in Rwanda: Assessment and Aspirations
In 2015, the Rwandan Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning mandated the Capital Market Authority (CMA) of R...
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Access to Capital: How Small and Mid-size Businesses are Funding Their Future
Small and mid-size businesses are the backbone of the American economy, and access to capital is the fuel that ...
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JOBS Act Titles V and VI: Comments on Proposed Changes to Exchange Act Registration Requirements
Commentary from the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets to the Securities and Exchange Commission on ...
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Walmart: The New “Go-To” Bank?
In October 2014, Walmart announced that it was teaming with GoBank to provide banking services to its customers...
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Framing the Issues: Strengthening Capital Markets in Developing Countries
On March 14, 2014 the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (CFM) hosted a working roundtable titled “F...
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Building East Africa’s Future: Tanzania and Accelerating Infrastructure Growth
At the August 2014 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the White House brought together government officials from 50 Af...
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Capital Markets in Developing Countries: The State of Play
Economists have repeatedly demonstrated a relationship between financial sector sophistication and economic gro...
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Deriving the Economic Impact of Derivatives: Growth through Risk Management
This study charts the benefits to the wider economy from the use of financial derivatives and is a first-of-its...