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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Главный автор: Pattillo, Catherine
Другие авторы: Masson, Paul
Формат: Журнал
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
Серии:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/034
Online-ссылка:Full text available on IMF