Economy
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Found 42 articles.
- Vol 41 No 1
- 07/01/2000
Less debt, more growth
World Bank President Jim Wolfensohn, together with internationalist anti-debt campaigners, will get joint credit if the Bank and the international Monetary Fund's Heavily Indebted Poor Country initiative makes real progress this year. Most creditor cou...
- Vol 40 No 6
- 19/03/1999
Down with tariffs
The Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine (UEMOA), the economic and monetary union of the eight West African states of the Franc Zone, is nine months away from a brave experiment in economic integration. From 1 January tariffs, with very few excep...

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