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| Foreword |
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| Session 1: Overview of initiatives to promote convergence in the context of regional integration |
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Overview of initiatives to promote convergence in the context of regional integration: an African perspective
Kealeboga S Masalila |
3 |
GCC monetary union
Ahmed AlKholifey and Ali Alreshan |
17 |
Regional integration: the ASEAN vision in 2020
Rosabel B Guerrero |
52 |
Harmonization of MERCOSUR statistics
Ivana Termansen |
59 |
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| Session 2: Convergence in the SADC and African economic integration process: prospects and statistical issues |
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Regional economic integration in SADC: progress, prospects and statistical issues for monetary union
Mshiyeni Belle |
85 |
Convergence in the SADC and African economic integration process: prospects and statistical issues
Ivan Zyuulu |
96 |
Alternative reconsideration of output growth differential for West African Monetary Zone
E D Balogun |
106 |
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| Session 3: Key variables: issues of definition, measurement and statistical improvement |
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SADC economic integration and statistical framework: issues of definition, measurement and statistical improvement
Stanislaus T Mrema |
123 |
European statistical harmonisation and improvements to serve the needs of the European Economic and Monetary Union
Steven Keuning and Alda Morais |
134 |
Currency unions: key variables, definitions, measurement, and statistical improvement
Charles Enoch and Russell Krueger |
139 |
Statistical measurement, standards and definitional issues: towards data convergence?
Rashad Cassim |
159 |
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| Annex: Participants in the seminar |
163 |
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