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Government in West Africa (1968) examines the practical working of modern government and the constitutional history of West Africa. It looks at various political thinkers and their application to the issues of civil government in West Africa; modern constitutional struggles on the continent; and problems associated with different political systems in the region.

Intro -- Preface -- Introduction -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Part I: Macroeconomic Policy and Private Sector -- Proposed Architecture for an ECOWAS Common Currency Union -- 1 Introduction -- 2 West Africa´s Initial Conditions -- 2.1 Current Monetary Arrangements of ECOWAS Countries -- 2.2 Basic Statistics and Volatility of ECOWAS Countries -- 2.3 Initial Institutional and Policy Challenges -- 3 Justification of the ECOWAS Common Currency Union -- 3.1 Key Issues and Motives for the CCU -- 3.2 ECOWAS as an Optimum Currency Area (OCA) and the Welfare Gains for Union Members -- 4 What Type of Monetary Union for ECOWAS -- 4.1 Extension of the UEMOA to Other West African Countries -- 4.2 Merger of WAMZ and UEMOA -- 4.3 Immediate Creation of a New Currency -- 5 Proposed Architecture for the Common Currency -- 5.1 Methodological Approach -- 5.2 Selection of Initial Members of the ECOWAS Common Currency Union -- 5.3 Role and Status on Non-members -- 5.4 Level and Management of Foreign Reserves -- 5.4.1 Adequacy of Initial Level of Union Reserves -- 5.4.2 Management of Reserves and Individual Countries´ Contributions -- 5.4.3 Structural External Reserves and Temporary Relief Mechanisms -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- The Quest for a Monetary Union in ECOWAS: An Econometric Test for Convergence of Countries -- 1 Background -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Methodology -- 3.1 Testing Technique -- 3.2 Data Issue -- 4 Empirical Analysis -- 4.1 Nominal Convergence -- 4.1.1 Exchange Rate -- 4.1.2 Interest Rate -- 4.1.3 Reserve Money -- 4.1.4 Inflation -- 4.1.5 Budget Deficit -- 4.2 Real Convergence -- 5 Conclusion and Policy Implications -- 5.1 Conclusion -- 5.2 Policy Implications -- Appendix -- References -- Fiscal and Monetary Policy Coordination in the WAMZ: Implications for Member States´ Performance on the Convergence Criteria.

Local Government in West Africa (1964) examines colonial and independent local government in Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone. With systems of British local government being adopted in English-speaking West Africa, this book looks at how the local government was supposed to work according to its British origins, and how it gradually came to work in its West African environment.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965