Monetary and Financial Systems in Africa: Integration and Economic Performance

Part 1. IntroductionChapter 1. Introduction and Background: A historical perspective of the role of financial institutions in Africa's development.- Aloysius Ajab Amin, Regina Nsang Tawah, and Augustin NtembePart 2. Country Monetary Policy IssuesChapter 2. Monetary Policy and Price Stability in Ghana's Fourth Republic: Have the Dues Been Paid?.- Abdul-Aziz Iddrisu and Imhotep Paul AlagidedeChapter 3. Monetary Policy Impact on Macroeconomic Performance in Tanzania: Empirical Approach.- Jehovaness AikaeliChapter 4. Effects of Monetary Policy Transmission on Economic Growth in Sierra Leone. - Elkanah Faux Part 3. Regional Financial Sector IssuesChapter 5. The monetary union and Economic Integration: Challenges of the Creation of the West African Single Currency, ECO.- Mohamed Ben Omar NdiayeChapter 6. The Political Economy of a Monetary Union in ECOWAS: The Case of the ECO Currency.- Rachael NtonghoChapter 7. The Effects of Minimum Bank Capital and Governance on the Financing of the EmCCA Economies - Issidor Noumba and Andr?Arnaud EngueneChapter 8. Facts and Prospects of Monetary Union in East Africa.- John SseruyangeChapter 9. The Development Cost of Maintaining Price and Economic Stability in Central and West African CFA Franc Zone.- Aloysius Ajab AminChapter 10. Banking Development in West Africa.- Regina Nsang TawahChapter 11. Capital Markets development and economic growth in North Africa.- Augustin Ntembe, Aloysius Ajab Amin, and Regina Nsang TawahPart 4. Continental Monetary Policy and the Financial Systems.Chapter 12. Economic Performance across Monetary Unions in Africa.- Joseph OnjalaChapter 13. Capital Markets' Development: Are African Countries Lagging?.- Thaddee M. BadibangaChapter 14. African Monetary Unions and Competitiveness.- Oluremi Davies OgunChapter 15. Financial Institutions versus Trade and Infrastructural Development in Africa.- Bruno L. Yawe, J. Ddumba-Ssentamu, Yusuf Kiwala, and Ibrahim MukisaChapter 16. Prospect of Economic Unions on Intra-Regional Trade in Africa.- Grace Nkansa AsanteChapter 17. A Single Currency for Africa: Challenges and Possibilities.- Augustin Ntembe Part 5. Conclusion: The Way Forward.Chapter 18. Conclusion: Currency Regimes and Monetary Integration in Africa, the Way Forward.- Regina Nsang Tawah, Augustin Ntembe, and Aloysius Ajab Amin