Regional Economic Integration in West Africa

Part I. Private Sector

1. The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Arab States and Sub-Saharan Africa: An Agenda for Growth-Inducing Collaboration
Diery Seck, Amie Gaye

2. Policy Recipe for Fostering Regional Integration Through Infrastructure Development and Coordination in West Africa
Mariama Deen-Swarray, Bamidele Adekunle, Gbadebo Odularu

Part II. Regional Macroeconomic Policy

3. Policy Coordination Framework for the Proposed Monetary Union in ECOWAS
Akpan H. Ekpo, Elijah Udoh

4. Do African Monetary Arrangements Make Sense? Evidence Based on Structural Symmetry
Francis M. Kemegue, Ousmane Seck

5. Real Exchange Rate Volatility and Export Performance in the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ)
Abu Bakarr Tarawalie, Christian Regobeth K. Ahortor, Marshall Umo

6. Tax Effort in ECOWAS Countries
Mohamed Ben Omar Ndiaye, Robert Dauda Korsu

7. Heterogeneity of Saving-Investment Causality in Waemu Zone and Fiscal Coordination Implication
Christian Lambert Nguena

Part III. Regional Trade

8. Determinants of a Successful Regional Trade Agreement in West Africa
Sam Olofin, Afees Salisu, Idris Ademuyiwa, Joel Owuru

9. Regional Integration: Comparison Between SADC and ECOWAS
Falilou Fall, Blandine Vachon, Cosimo Winckler

10. Terrorism and Regional Integration in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of the CFA Franc Zone
Juliet U. Elu, Gregory N. Price

Keywords: Economics/Management Science, Development Economics, Regional/Spatial Science