ECO: The Single Currency Agenda in West Africa the Single Currency Agenda in West Africa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adetutu Talabi
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Headline WEST AFRICA: Single currency faces political hurdles


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Emmanuel TWENEBOAH SENZU

The different target of the time period has been established over the past two decades in the institutionalization of a single currency union in West Africa. Depending on varied reasons the proposed programs have always failed before the set timelines in respect of ECOWAS monetary unification and single currency adoption. As a result, the paper explored and developed its argument based on the existing studies of structured economic shocks, significant to the failure of the single currency union, and its major causal factors. And with observed structured analysis propose catalytic activator method as a theoretical guide to attain the single currency union within three (3) years ahead, if the necessary requirement as the commitment level of members’ State is applied towards the single currency unification program. It then elaborates in the spirit of precision the process required to sustain the eco-currency program in other to elevate members State in an out-date of its domestic currencies struggling as a subservient economic bloc to the adoption of a new anticipated domineering currency in its own merit to shoulder with the global dominating hard currencies.


Author(s):  
Micah, Ezekiel Elton Michael ◽  
Edokpa Fadal Mary ◽  
Isaac Esezobor Ogbeifun
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