November 2008
The welfare effects of monetary union and flexible exchange rate regimes: The case for the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) and the West Africa Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) and the implications for the Gambia
Efforts for economic integration in African countries started since the early 1960s, and culminated in the establishment of an African Union in July 2001. The Union’s Constitution Act called for the establishment of an economic and monetary Union, starting at the sub-regional level. At the sub-region of West Africa comprising of the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ), and the West Africa Economic and Monetary Union...
November 2008
Political vs. Military Solutions to Terrorism
The war against international terrorism and its sponsors is a war unlike any we have ever known. There is no battlefield, no clash of armies. It is a war fought in the shadows and recesses of the world. Terrorism breeds among the hopeless and the alienated, in societies where democracy and economic opportunity are out of reach for most people. Military power alone will not end this scourge of mankind. Victory will...
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