Contrasting Monetary Regimes in Africa /

In post-independence sub-Saharan Africa, institutional arrangements for monetary policy have taken a variety of forms, although the historical evolution of many African financial systems has been similar. This paper identifies five different regimes and examines how they evolved over time. It focuse...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Honohan, Patrick
مؤلفون آخرون: O'Connell, Stephen
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/064
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF
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