The Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone

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The Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone is written by Maria Eugénia Mata and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3030338576 (ISBN 10) and 9783030338572 (ISBN 13).

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.