Monetary and Financial Systems in Africa

Part 1. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Introduction and Background: A historical perspective of the role of financial institutions in Africa's development.- Part 2. Country Monetary Policy Issues.- Chapter 2. Monetary Policy and Price Stability in Ghana's Fourth Republic: Have the Dues Been Paid?.- Chapter 3. Monetary Policy Impact on Macroeconomic Performance in Tanzania: Empirical Approach.- Chapter 4. Effects of Monetary Policy Transmission on Economic Growth in Sierra Leone.- Part 3. Regional Financial Sector Issues.- Chapter 5. The monetary union and Economic Integration: Challenges of the Creation of the West African Single Currency, ECO.- Chapter 6. The Political Economy of a Monetary Union in ECOWAS: The Case of the ECO Currency.- Chapter 7. The Effects of Minimum Bank Capital and Governance on the Financing of the EmCCA Economies.- Chapter 8. Facts and Prospects of Monetary Union in East Africa.- Chapter 9. The Development Cost of Maintaining Price and Economic Stability in Central and West African CFA Franc Zone.- Chapter 10. Banking Development in West Africa.- Chapter 11. Capital Markets development and economic growth in North Africa.- Part 4. Continental Monetary Policy and the Financial Systems.- Chapter 12. Economic Performance across Monetary Unions in Africa.- Chapter 13. Capital Markets' Development: Are African Countries Lagging?.- Chapter 14. African Monetary Unions and Competitiveness.- Chapter 15. Financial Institutions versus Trade and Infrastructural Development in Africa.- Chapter 16. Prospect of Economic Unions on Intra-Regional Trade in Africa.- Chapter 17. A Single Currency for Africa: Challenges and Possibilities.- Part 5. Conclusion: The Way Forward.- Chapter 18. Conclusion: Currency Regimes and Monetary Integration in Africa, the Way Forward.