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    Economist – Kako Nubukpo elucidates the primacy of renouncing the CFA Franc for the ECO – the single Currency in the West African Region

    Posted On 27 May 2021
    By : New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent
    Comments: 14

    By Abdul Rahman Bangura–

    Photo Credit: ECOWAS

    NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Freetown, Sierra Leone-  Since 2020, the ECO — the single currency in the West African area was announced with the Etats Généraux to hold on Wednesday May 26th,2021.

    “The first is the fact that we have had it since 1945, but that it has not generated a process of intra-community exchange. The second criticism is that of competitiveness. The French CFA, pegged to the euro, is too strong a currency because it acts as a tax on exports and a subsidy on imports. As a result, you have trade balances that are
    structurally in deficit.

    “All the world’s emerging economies are fighting to have weak currencies, except for the economies of the franc zone. Look at interest rates in the franc zone. Real interest rates are in double digits – 12, 13, 14 percent – and compare that  with the eurozone because we have a currency that is pegged to the euro.

    “We should expect to see similar interest rates in the eurozone. You have interest rates that are close to zero. The fourth and final criticism is that in the CFA, in the organization of central banks, there is no concern for economic growth. There is only the concern for price stability.”

    The new currency ECO could facilitate trade and financial exchanges, reduce the cost of transactions between  countries and increase competition.

    “What makes the CFA so interesting in its analysis is that somewhere it concentrates all the ills of the franc zone economies, i.e. the lack of vision, the absence of governance worthy of the name and the difficulty in understanding that development is an endogenous process and that the issue is the financing of the internal market.

    “This means that the CFA franc is a vehicle for extraversion, i.e. it allows for the outflow of capital that should normally remain in Africa’s franc zone to finance emergence.” In order for ECO to take hold, it remains to be seen how far ECOWAS countries are prepared to go to achieve this monetary union.

    “A test of credibility, that is to say, will West African leaders be able to do something together so that it can be said that the 15 of us were able to create a currency?

    “Secondly, will this currency be at the service of the populations, especially the rural populations who are excluded by the CFA system, which remains the currency of the elites and which I call the currency of voluntary servitude?”

    Analysis in Kako Nubukpo prevail that, the coming of the EC0 could consequently improve the livelihood of the youth and women, encourage the industrialization of the advancement of the private sector — requiring companies and start-ups sustainable and undivided growth.

     

    For New Africa Business News (NABN) Abdul Rahman Bangura Reports,  Africa Correspondent

    Email: Info@newafricabusinessnews.com

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    14 Comments

    1. Philip May 27, 2021 at 3:42 am Reply

      Renouncing the CFA Franc for the ECO is past over due. Franco Africa need to believe in themselves. France would never build their beautiful Countries. They have the chance for Thousand years. All they doing and continue doing is exploiting, French so called African Countries. Time to man up and say bye bye Macron. Paris in France. Philip

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    2. Rita May 27, 2021 at 3:44 am Reply

      They don’t need permission to join the ECO currency. Thank you for this great report. Kigali in Rwanda. Rita

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    3. Daniel May 27, 2021 at 3:47 am Reply

      ECO is the way to go. Let’s do it. Daniel in Monrovia LIBERIA

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    4. Makda May 27, 2021 at 3:49 am Reply

      Make it ECO. Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Makda

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    5. Ismaila May 27, 2021 at 3:57 am Reply

      Their is no stopping for our new ECO currency. They can use their coffee boys, so call presidents in French speaking African Countries, try stopping it, is never going to stop us having this beautiful new currency, all ECOWAS Countries going to use, coming soon ECO. Ismaila in Conakry Guinea

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    6. Ahmed May 27, 2021 at 3:58 am Reply

      Thank you for the newsletters. Ahmed in Cairo, Egypt

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    7. Harona May 27, 2021 at 4:11 am Reply

      Thank you for this report. Without Africa France and it’s cousins would be third world country/ countries. Harona in Casablanca Morocco

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