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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by kobo[/i] [br][b]1.[/b] The Point News Editorial: [url="http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/in-support-of-regional-integration"][b][size=4]In support of regional integration[/size=4][/b][/url] Friday, May 09, 2014 Ghana’s vice president Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has been quoted as saying that West Africa is likely to face challenges greater than those experienced by the Euro Zone in its quest to operate a single currency without social, economic and political integration. We share the view that West African countries must give up a degree of their sovereignty and converge politically so as to avoid potential problems, after the launch of the West Africa Monetary Zone come January 2015. The introduction of the ECO and launch of WAMZ would be feasible if all macro-economic convergence criteria were met, adding that the process must also include the completion of the harmonization of all fiscal, financial and monetary policies, he also stated. He added that rushing into an unsustainable monetary integration that has the potential of deepening the macro-economic woes of the member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) would be disastrous. The establishment of the West African Common Currency (the ECO) was delayed from January 2003 to December 2005, then to December 2009 and now January 2015. ‘Monetary is not just a matter of economics. It is political in the sense that it involves fiscal discipline, trade policies, investment decisions and even security considerations,’ he said. He said the Euro Zone crisis has huge implications for the WAMZ since the envisaged closer economic integration in the sub-region was seen as an important strategy to expand markets and the trading of goods between member states....[url="http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/in-support-of-regional-integration"][b]Full Report[/b][/url][hr] [b]2.[/b] RELATED BANTABA TOPIC [url="http://www.gambia.dk/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13827"][b][size=4] GAMBIA- SENEGAL BORDER OPENS[/size=4][/b][/url] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.