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Gambia’s central bank seeks greater independence as fiscal dominance ends
Central Bank of The Gambia to work on autonomy and data management under new fund programme
Gambian ex-governor says he feared for his family’s life under deposed president
Former governor tells tribunal he obeyed orders to open accounts and hand over cash
Gambian governor and deputies dismissed, local media reports
Governor was appointed by recently deposed president
West African countries take stock of ‘capacity building project’
The West African Monetary Institute is hiring an external consultant to review the $2 million project, as it works towards establishing second monetary union in region
West African central bankers receive training in debt managment and corporate governance practices
West African Institute for Financial Management works with IMF and World Bank to train region’s central bankers
IMF on reserve adequacy in The Gambia
Research suggests reserves equal to the value of between 4.5 and seven months of imports are needed
Gambia holds rates at 15%
The Central Bank of the Gambia said that an increase in food prices meant that it had to keep its benchmark rediscount rate at 15%.
Gambian central bank governor quits
The governor of Gambia's central bank, Famara Jatta, has left the country to take up the less prestigious position of representative of the African Development Bank (ADB) in Sudan.
Central Bank of The Gambia - Annual Report 2004
According to the Central Bank of The Gambia's Annual Report 2004, real gross domestic product (GDP) grew by a robust 6.6 per cent in 2004, but lower than 8.8 per cent in 2003.
The Gambia's central bank creates new deputy posts
The Point newspaper has quoted an unnamed reliable source as saying that Bamba Saho, general manager of the Central Bank of The Gambia, has been appointed first deputy governor of the central bank.
Gambia plans central bank reform
Famara Jatta, Governor of the Central Bank of The Gambia, has said that the bank has started work on reforms within the framework of a restructuring exercise for the enhancement of national economic statistics preparation and processing.
CBG to get two new deputy governors
Churchill Baldeh, the Majority Leader of the National Assembly, told the Daily Observer that two new deputy governors will be appointed for the Central Bank of The Gambia.
Common West African central bank by July 2005
A common central bank for the five West African countries, Nigeria, Guinea, Ghana, Sierra Leone and The Gambia will have begun operations by July 2005, this article says. To be officially known as the West Africa Central Bank (WACB) the policy-guiding…
African common currency 'will open up economies'
The introduction of the "ECO" as a common currency for Ghana, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Guinea and The Gambia will open up the economies of member states to increase trade and commerce, according to Lanto Harding.
Central bank of Gambia to introduce new bank notes
GAMBIA - The Central Bank of The Gambia (CBG) is to discontinue the practice of exchanging bank notes that are fit for reissue for new uncirculated bank notes to members of the public effective 15 April.
Banjul joins single currency
GAMBIA - The Gambia has joined five other countries in the West African sub-region in the introduction of a single currency, the West Africa Second Monetary Zone ( WAMZ).
Gambia struggles with economic reform
GAMBIA - Presidential elections this week in the Gambia will push the small West African nation into the international limelight.
Expanded monetary union in West Africa
ARTICLE - In an article published in the IMF's quarterly magazine, IMF economists R.D. Asante and Paul Robert Masson talk with Jacqueline Irving of the IMF's external relations department about the pros and cons of expanded monetary union in West Africa.
Ghana to be HQ of West African Monetary Institute
Ghana has been selected as the location for the headquarters of the West African Monetary Institute that is to work towards the establishment of a West African Central Bank.