For instance, trade is still quite modest within WAEMU, a currency union based on the CFA franc, and is even more modest among the six countries in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community, ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic advanced economies have tapped their central ... of a currency union—Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo. These members of ...