Financial Channels, Property Rights and Poverty: A Sub-Saharan African Perspective This work was initiated when Raju Jan Singh was a Senior Economist and Yifei Huang a summer intern at the African Department of the International Monetary Fund. We thank Kassia Antoine for her research assistance and for their useful comments on previous drafts Andrew Berg, Jiro Honda, Roland Kpodar, Mauro Mecagni, Brett Rayner and Gonzalo Salinas, as well as two anonymous referees. The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank or Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co., LLC
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