The plan to introduce a common currency in West Africa has been difficult achieve. Since this was agreed upon by member countries, it faced more than 5 postponements, and made scholars experts question whether the will ever be introduced sub-region. This comes from postponement of launch 2027. Before announcement, confronted with various issues challenges (convergence criteria, fear loss fiscal...

This study examines institutions and economic growth: evidence from ECOWAS for 2000-2018. We use eight alternative variables to evaluate gross domestic product, fixed capital formation, population growth, foreign direct investment, control of corruption, government effectiveness, political stability & absence violence/terrorism, rule law. Then, we adopted the combined OLS model, effects ran...

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The study investigated the association between employment dynamics and fiscal policy in Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). focused on 15 memberships ECOWAS from 1990 to 2019. ?h? made use Keynes’ theory, which a simple model was formed. variables used were employment, government expenditure, tax revenue. ?ut?r?gr?ss?v? d?str?but?d l?g (?RDL) adopted because nature unit ro...

Trade within Africa is at an all-time low, with a lack of optimal intermodal transportation network and high cost business serving as deterrent to trade. This research studies Intra-African ECOWAS using hierarchical spatial aggregation process identify 27 nodes. Distance-based weighted centrality measures employed TOPSIS model ranked node Economic Community West African States (ECOWAS) transpor...

T his study investigates the effects of extra-ECOWAS merchandise trade and investment flows on the transmission of business cycles in the selected ECOWAS between 1985 and 2014.  The study finds that total trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) significantly influence the transmission of business cycles with elasticities of 1.1 and 0.7, respectively in the long run. There are little vari...