The CFA Franc Zone: Common Currency, Uncommon Challenges

By Anne Marie Gulde, Charalambos G Tsangarides

April 2, 2008

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Anne Marie Gulde, and Charalambos G Tsangarides. The CFA Franc Zone: Common Currency, Uncommon Challenges, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2008) accessed December 24, 2024

Summary

About one-third of countries covered by the IMF's African Department are members of the CFA franc zone. With most other countries moving away from fixed exchange rates, the issue of an adequate policy framework to ensure the sustainability of the CFA franc zone is clearly of interest to policymakers and academics. However, little academic research exists in the public domain. This book aims to fill this void by bringing together work undertaken in the context of intensified regional surveillance and highlighting the current challenges and the main policy requirements if the arrangements are to be carried forward. The book is based on empirical research by a broad group of IMF economists, with contributions from several outside experts.

Subject: Banking, Foreign exchange, Imports, International trade, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates, Tariffs, Taxes, Terms of trade

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, BOOK, Caribbean, CEMAC country, CEMAC member country, CFA franc, East Asia, Imports, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tariffs, Terms of trade, WAEMU country, WAMZ country, West Africa

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