The Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone: Its Impact in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa

by Maria Eugénia Mata

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030338592
• ISBN13: 9783030338596
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"