Cryptocurrency regulation in Africa: advantages, motivation, regulatory models, challenges, consequences, and principles vs. rules-based regulation

Ozili, Peterson K (2024): Cryptocurrency regulation in Africa: advantages, motivation, regulatory models, challenges, consequences, and principles vs. rules-based regulation. Forthcoming in:

Abstract

This study examines cryptocurrency regulation in African countries. It identifies the advantages of cryptocurrency regulation, the regulators of cryptocurrency in African countries, and it identifies the existing cryptocurrency regulatory models in Africa. It also identifies the motivation for regulating cryptocurrency in Africa as well as the challenges and consequences of regulating cryptocurrency in Africa. The study also offers a perspective on rules-based versus principles-based cryptocurrency regulation in African countries. The study shows that majority of African countries adopt a “do-not-regulate” cryptocurrency regulatory model which indicates that cryptocurrency remains largely unregulated in many African countries. Few African countries adopt the full-scale cryptocurrency regulatory model, the total ban cryptocurrency regulatory model, the soft ban cryptocurrency regulatory model, and the use-at-own-risk cryptocurrency regulatory model.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: cryptocurrency, regulation, Africa, crypto assets, blockchain, distributed ledger
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E4 - Money and Interest Rates > E42 - Monetary Systems ; Standards ; Regimes ; Government and the Monetary System ; Payment Systems; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights

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