Adopting full dollarization in postconflict economies : would the gains compensate for the losses in Liberia? / Jiro Honda and Liliana Schumacher.

This paper discusses whether adopting the U.S. dollar as the sole legal tender could help Liberia, a postconflict economy, to boost growth and strengthen fiscal discipline. In view of the performance of exchange rate regimes in many countries and Liberia's own experience with dollarization, we...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors:	Honda, Jiro (Author), Schumacher, Liliana (Author)
Corporate Author:	International Monetary Fund. African Department
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, African Dept., ©2006.
Series:	IMF working paper ; WP/06/82.
Subjects:	Dollar, American. Monetary policy > Liberia. Liberia > Economic conditions. Liberia > Economic policy. Economic history. Economic policy. Monetary policy. Liberia.