Monetary Union in West Africa : An Agency of Restraint for Fiscal Policies? /

Could a West African monetary union (either of the non-CFA countries, or all ECOWAS members) be an effective "agency of restraint" on fiscal policies? We discuss how monetary union could affect fiscal discipline and the arguments for explicit fiscal restraints considered in the European Mo...

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Autor principal: Pattillo, Catherine
Outros Autores: Masson, Paul
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
coleção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/034
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF