The Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone (eBook)

Its Impact in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa

Maria Eugénia Mata (Autor)

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2020 | 1st ed. 2020
XX, 265 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-33857-2 (ISBN)

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This monograph examines the failure of the Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone and the birth of new monetary and financial systems in Portuguese-speaking African countries. Examining colonial and post-colonial times, Mata analyses the decision to build a Portuguese monetary area in the early 1960s and mid-1970s when the decolonisation process was peaking.

This book offers some important lessons regarding the functioning and dismantling of monetary areas, and on the importance of central-banks' co-operation.

Maria Eugénia Mata is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics at Nova University Lisbon, Portugal. Her research interests include Economic, Business and Financial History, and the History of Economic Thought. Mata is an Ex-President of the Portuguese Economic and Social History Association.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.6.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• Zusatzinfo: XX, 265 p. 20 illus., 17 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Central banking history • Colonial African economic history • Economic History • Monetary Reform • Portuguese colonies • Portuguese economic history • Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone • Post-colonial African economic history
• ISBN-10: 3-030-33857-6 / 3030338576
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-33857-2 / 9783030338572