The CFA Franc Zone

The CFA Franc Zone
Title The CFA Franc Zone PDF eBook
Author Ms.Anne Marie Gulde
Publisher International Monetary Fund
Pages 411
Release 2008-04-02
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1589066758

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About one-third of countries covered by the IMF's African Department are members of the CFA franc zone. With most other countries moving away from fixed exchange rates, the issue of an adequate policy framework to ensure the sustainability of the CFA franc zone is clearly of interest to policymakers and academics. However, little academic research exists in the public domain. This book aims to fill this void by bringing together work undertaken in the context of intensified regional surveillance and highlighting the current challenges and the main policy requirements if the arrangements are to be carried forward. The book is based on empirical research by a broad group of IMF economists, with contributions from several outside experts.

Regional Integration in West Africa

Regional Integration in West Africa
Title Regional Integration in West Africa PDF eBook
Author Eswar Prasad
Publisher Brookings Institution Press
Pages 203
Release 2021-07-13
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0815738544

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" Assessing the potential benefits and risks of a currency union Leaders of the fifteen-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have set a goal of achieving a monetary and currency union by late 2020. Although some progress has been made toward achieving this ambitious goal, major challenges remain if the region is to realize the necessary macroeconomic convergence and establish the required institutional framework in a relatively short period of time. The proposed union offers many potential benefits, especially for countries with historically high inflation rates and weak central banks. But, as implementation of the euro over the past two decades has shown, folding multiple currencies, representing disparate economies, into a common union comes with significant costs, along with operational challenges and transitional risks. All these potential negatives must be considered carefully by ECOWAS leaders seeking tomeet a self-imposed deadline. This book, by two leading experts on economics and Africa, makes a significant analytical contribution to the debates now under way about how ECOWAS could achieve and manage its currency union, andthe ramifications for the African continent. "

The CFA Franc Zone

The CFA Franc Zone
Title The CFA Franc Zone PDF eBook
Author Ali Zafar
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 250
Release 2021-05-11
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 3030710068

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This book provides an empirical analysis of economic and political structures impacting the CFA franc zone. Concise and practical chapters explore the history of the CFA franc zone, challenges to development, geopolitical issues, the importance of flexible exchanges rates, growth trends, and the impact of the Covid crisis. Policy reform is examined to detail economic approaches that could reduce poverty and increase the quality of life within the area. This book aims to present a macroeconomic and exchange rate framework to promote development and post-Covid recovery within the CFA franc zone. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and policymakers involved in African economics, the political economy, and development economics.

Local Content and Sustainable Development in Global Energy Markets

Local Content and Sustainable Development in Global Energy Markets
Title Local Content and Sustainable Development in Global Energy Markets PDF eBook
Author Damilola S. Olawuyi
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 451
Release 2021-03-04
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1108495370

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Examines critical links between local content requirements and the application of sustainable development treaties in global energy markets.

Africa's Last Colonial Currency

Africa's Last Colonial Currency
Title Africa's Last Colonial Currency PDF eBook
Author Fanny Pigeaud
Publisher Pluto Press (UK)
Pages 0
Release 2021
Genre Africa
ISBN 9780745341798

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How the CFA Franc enabled France to continue its colonies in Africa.

West African Economic and Monetary Union

West African Economic and Monetary Union
Title West African Economic and Monetary Union PDF eBook
Author Patrick A. Imam
Publisher International Monetary Fund
Pages 46
Release 2013-10-22
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1484348222

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The financial system in the WAEMU remains largely bank-based. The banking sector comprises 106 banks and 13 financial institutions, which together hold more than 90 percent of the financial system’s assets (about 54 percent of GDP at end-2011). Five banks account for 50 percent of banking assets. The ownership structure of the sector is changing fast, with the rapid rise of foreign-owned (pan-African) banks. This contributes to higher competition but also rising heterogeneity in the banking system, with large and profitable cross-country groups competing with often weaker country-based (and sometime government-owned) banks. Nonbank financial institutions are developing quickly, notably insurance companies, but remain overall small. This paper presents a detailed analysis of the banking system.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism
Title The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism PDF eBook
Author Tanja A. Börzel
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 705
Release 2016
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0199682305

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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism - the first of its kind - offers a systematic and wide-ranging survey of the scholarship on regionalism, regionalization, and regional governance. Unpacking the major debates, leading authors of the field synthesize the state of the art, provide a guide to the comparative study of regionalism, and identify future avenues of research. Twenty-seven chapters review the theoretical and empirical scholarship with regard to the emergence of regionalism, the institutional design of regional organizations and issue-specific governance, as well as the effects of regionalism and its relationship with processes of regionalization. The authors explore theories of cooperation, integration, and diffusion explaining the rise and the different forms of regionalism. The handbook also discusses the state of the art on the world regions: North America, Latin America, Europe, Eurasia, Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Various chapters survey the literature on regional governance in major issue areas such as security and peace, trade and finance, environment, migration, social and gender policies, as well as democracy and human rights. Finally, the handbook engages in cross-regional comparisons with regard to institutional design, dispute settlement, identities and communities, legitimacy and democracy, as well as inter- and transregionalism.