Title:	Monetary Policy and Central Banking in the Middle East and North Africa
Authors:	Christopher Adam Cobham, David Dibeh, Ghassan Hassan Hakimian
Keywords:	Monetary policy—Middle East
Issue Date:	2008
Publisher:	Routledge
Description:	This book contains new information and fresh analysis of monetary policy, central banking and exchange rate regimes in the Middle East and North Africa. Part I covers central banking and monetary policy, while Part II covers monetary policy and exchange rate regimes. Some chapters cover the whole region – for example, Gisolo reports an assessment of central bank independence for nearly all the MENA countries, Schnabl and Schobert investigate the operations of debtor central banks in the region, Achkar and Shahin examine the effect of exchange rates on infl ation for each country in the region, and Adam and Cobham estimate the effect on countries’ trade of alternative exchange rate regimes. This book presents selected papers from the workshop on ‘Monetary Policy and Central Banking in the Middle East and North Africa: Policies, Politics and Prospects’, held at the 8th Mediterranean Research Meeting organised by the European University Institute’s Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, on 21–25 March 2007 in Montecatini Terme, Italy. The workshop was designed to encourage papers on a number of areas of monetary policy and central banking in the MENA region: the recent and ongoing development of monetary policy frameworks in MENA countries; the political economy of central banking and monetary policy in the MENA region and the impact of monetary policies on the real economy; and the exchange rate regime choices facing MENA countries, particularly in the light of the possible impact of the Euro–Med Agreements and the eurozone on monetary policy design in the region.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/51729
ISBN:	978-0-203- 88455-3
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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