By Joshua Worlasi AMLANUThe Bank of Ghana is seeking to strengthen its currency forecasting and management systems, amid rising demand for physical cash and parallel growth of digital ...

West Africa is undergoing its own version of Brexit. By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). While the specifics are ...

If Africa can trade with itself, on its own terms, in its own currencies, it could rewrite the rules of global commerce ...

The legacy of Françafrique continues to loom over West Africa’s monetary policies. Despite the rhetoric of reform, the ECO currency mirrors much of the structure of its predecessor, the CFA franc.

The decision to rename this major artery in the Senegalese capital after one of the heroes of independence, on 4 April – Senegal’s Independence Day – encapsulates the new wave of economic nationalism ...

This paper employs various empirical methods to test the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) hypothesis in West and Central Africa, considering countries within the WAEMU, CEMAC, CFA, and ECOWAS currency ...

The countries of the eight-nation West African franc zone have increased planned debt issuance to 3,458 billion CFA francs ($7.18 billion) in 2014, up more than 52 percent from last year ...