Currency devaluation and international competitiveness : the case of the CFA zone of West and Central Africa / Dosse Toulaboe

The lack of external competitiveness in the CFA zone resulting from an appreciation of the CFA franc and deterioration of the terms of trade, is believed to be one of the major causes of the poor performance of the zone in the 1980s and early 1990s. The objective of this study is to investigate the...

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Main Author: Toulaboe, Dosse (Author)
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Published: Faculty of Business and Management ; UiTM Press, 2002.
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