Regional integration in West Africa : is there a role for a single currency? /
"Leaders of the fifteen-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had set a goal of achieving a monetary and currency union by late 2020. The COVID pandemic and the lack of macroeconomic convergence among member countries precipitated a postponement of this goal. As this book sh...
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press
[2021]
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctv11hpt59 |
Mục lục:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Information
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction and Overview
- Basic Analytical Considerations
- Integration through Trade
- Macroeconomic and Structural Convergence
- Exchange Rate and Monetary Policy Regimes
- Illustrative Monetary Policy Rules
- Institutional Framework, Policy Coordination
- The Path Forward
- Appendix A: Comparing and Contrasting Asia's and Europe's Approaches to Economic Integration
- Appendix B: Macroeconomic Convergence Criteria for Existing Monetary/Currency Unions
- Appendix C: General Equilibrium Analysis of Alternative Exchange Rate and Monetary Policy Regimes
- Appendix D: Details on Construction of Data for Analytical Exercises
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover