Payments Arrangements and the Expansion of Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa

By Sena Eken, John F. Laker, Shailendra J. Anjaria

July 8, 1982

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Sena Eken, John F. Laker, and Shailendra J. Anjaria Payments Arrangements and the Expansion of Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1982) accessed December 3, 2024

Summary

In late 1979, the African Center for Monetary Studies requested, on behalf of the Association of African Central Banks (AACB), that the Fund staff prepare a study describing the existing payments, exchange control, and exchange rate arrangements in the proposed 17-nation Preferential Trade Area (PTA) of Eastern and Southern African States, analyzing any payments obstacles to trade in the region, and recommending improvements in payments arrangements that would promote intraregional trade.

Subject: Banking, Credit, Currencies, Currency convertibility, Exports, Imports, International trade, Money

Keywords: Africa, Credit, Currencies, Currency convertibility, EAC trade, Exports, Fund staff, Fund staff visit, Imports, Kenya, OP, Payments arrangement, PTA arrangement, Southern Africa, Trade, Trade expansion

Publication Details

Pages:

59
Volume:

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Series:

Occasional Paper No. 1982/004
Stock No:

S011EA0000000
ISBN:

9781557750792
ISSN:

0251-6365

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