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Exchange rates and trade balance in West African economy and monetary union countries: does the content of the traded goods matter?

Cogent Economics & Finance
This paper analyzes the role of the nature of traded goods in the effect of the real exchange rate on the trade balance in West African Economy and Monetary Union countries.
Camille Detondji Guidime, Adama Diaw, Barthélémy Biao   +2 more
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Foundations of community territorial planning policy of WAEMU

International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Studies, 2022
After the independences, some West African countries opted to unite within the framework of regional integration to face the multiple problems of their development. It is in this perspective that the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) has been created in 1994.
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Financial development and economic growth: evidence from West Africa [PDF]

In this paper, we employ the Geweke (1982) decomposition method to examine the Granger causality between finance and growth in West Africa. Our sample contains twelve ECOWAS member countries (Economic Community of West African States) and we distinguish ...
Mamadou Diang Barry, Zaka Ratsimalahelo
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West African Monetary Integration and Interstates Risk-Sharing [PDF]

There are continuing efforts at the monetary integration and unionization in West Africa. Several academics argue that a monetary union among West African states would be costly because of the magnitude of asymmetric shocks.
Sampawende Jules TAPSOBA
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Experience with Budgetary Convergence in the WAEMU

IMF Working Papers, 2002
This paper reviews the experience of fiscal adjustment undertaken in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries since the entry into force of the 1994 treaty establishing the framework for a regional convergence of national fiscal policies.
Paul R Masson, Ousmane Dore
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The Economic Community of West African States : fiscal revenue implications of the prospective economic partnership agreement with the European Union [PDF]

This paper applies a partial equilibrium model to analyze the fiscal revenue implications of the prospective economic partnership agreement between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union.
Nielsen, Lynge, Zouhon-Bi, Simplice G.
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Does West Africa Form an Optimum Currency Area? A Generalized PPP Approach [PDF]

, 2008
This paper investigates the optimality of setting up a common currency area in West Africa by using a generalized purchasing power parity (GPPP) model. The Johansen method of multivariate cointegration shows that not only the existing CFA franc zone but ...
Sugimoto, Kimiko
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Quality management: the challenges of regional governance in West Africa

International Journal of Metrology and Quality Engineering, 2015
With a total area of 3 509 600 km2 and a population of over 80 340 000 people, the eight WAEMU countries (the West Africa Economic and Monetary Union) have many products to offer the international market.
Osseni Loukoumanou, Charki Abdérafi, Kebe Fadel, Calchera Gilles, Martin Luc, Bonnier Georges   +5 more
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Macroeconomic effects of semi-subsistence agricultural productivity growth: Evidence from Benin and extension to the WAEMU countries

Scientific African, 2020
This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of an agricultural productivity growth in a semi-subsistence agriculture. To that end, a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model is used with the 2015 social accounting matrix (SAM) data of Benin ...
Abraham Amoussouga Gero, Aklesso Y.G. Egbendewe   +1 more
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Economic and Institutional Reforms in French-speaking West Africa Impact on Efficiency and Growth [PDF]

Economic reforms, West Africa, Institutions ...
Danielson, Anders
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