Adopting Full Dollarization in Postconflict Economies : Would the Gains Compensate for the Losses in Liberia? /

This paper discusses whether adopting the U.S. dollar as the sole legal tender could help Liberia, a postconflict economy, to boost growth and strengthen fiscal discipline. In view of the performance of exchange rate regimes in many countries and Liberia's own experience with dollarization, we...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schumacher, Liliana
Other Authors: Honda, Jiro
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/082
Online Access:Full text available on IMF