Download or read book Commercial Banks and Economic Development written by Ali Issa Abdi and published by Praeger Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on the role of banking systems (esp. Commercial banks) in economic development in East Africa for the period from 1950 to 1973 - covers institutional framework, banks and capital formation, resource allocation, savings-investment processes, state participation, etc., and analyses changes in banking systems during the postindependence period. Bibliography pp. 143 to 148, graphs and statistical tables.