Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction

SVETLANA ANDRIANOVA Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Leicester, UKLEONARDO BECCHETTI Full Professor of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy; President, Supervising Committee of Banca Popolare EticaFABRIZIO CARMIGNANI Central African Office of the United Nations Economic Commission for AfricaABDUR CHOWDHURY Director, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, SwitzerlandPANICOS DEMETRIADES Professor of Financial Economics, Department of Economics, University of Leicester, UKALEMAYEHU GEDA Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; Researcher, African Economic Research Consortium; Researcher, Economic Commission for Africa; Researcher, University of London, SOASIFTEKHAR HASAN Cary L. Wellington Professor of Finance, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Scientific Advisor, Central Bank of Finland; Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; Research Fellow, Berkley Center of Entrepreneurial Studies, Stern School of Business, New York UniversityNIELS HERMES Associate Professor, International Finance, University of Groningen, the NetherlandsSAIBAL KAR Fellow, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, IndiaPRANAB KUMAR DAS Fellow in Economics, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, IndiaSUBAL C. KUMBHAKAR University Distinguished Professor in Economics, SUNY, Binghamton, New York; Fellow, Journal of EconometricsROBERT LENSINK Professor in Finance and Financial Markets, University of Groningen, the NetherlandsMARCO MAZZOLI Associate Professor of Monetary and International Economics and Director of the Research Centre 'CESPEM Mario Arcelli', Catholic University, Piacenza, ItalyS. MANSOOB MURSHED Professor of the Economics of Conflict and Peace, Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands; Professor of International Economics, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UKPETER QUARTEY Research Fellow, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of GhanaABEBE SHIMELES Research Fellow, University of Goteborg, Sweden; Researcher, African Economic Research Consortium; Researcher, Economic Commission for AfricaDANIEL ZERFU Lecturer, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia