Overview
- Examines the effects of African countries' independence on Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone
- Covers the last quarter of the century and the second millennium
- Reviews the processes of monetary decolonisation of the various territories of the Portuguese colonial empire
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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About this book
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.
This book offers some important lessons regarding the functioning and dismantling of monetary areas, and on the importance of central-banks’ co-operation.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Origin of the Escudo Monetary Zone
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The Transition to a Revised Escudo Monetary Zone
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The End of the Revised Escudo Monetary System
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Co-operation from Independences to the End of the Millenium
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone
Book Subtitle: Its Impact in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
Authors: Maria Eugénia Mata
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33857-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33856-5Published: 13 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33859-6Published: 13 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-33857-2Published: 12 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 265
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Financial History, Middle Eastern and North African Economics