Project Manager of NIB on Eco Currency for West African Countries
In Season One Of #BusinessIndex Abdul Raafi Mohammed guest was Former Senior Project Manager of National Investment Bank. The discussion was the one Common Currency for West African Countries.
According to the Senior Project
Manager of National Investment Bank Six
ECOWAS nations have been planning to introduce a common currency, known as the
eco, in a new monetary union, the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ). The body
set up to make the technical preparations for the transition, known as the West
African Monetary Institute (WAMI), has postponed this implementation several
times.
Most WAMZ members have failed to
achieve the prescribed economic indicators needed for the smooth take-off of
the common currency: single-digit inflation, central bank financing of
government deficit of less than 10% of the previous year’s revenue, a
government budget deficit of no more than 4% of GDP, and enough foreign
exchange reserves to cover three months of imports.
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