The Difficulties in Launching the Escudo Monetary Zone
There were great difficulties in the Foreign Exchange Management Funds of some of the colonial territories of the Escudo Monetary Zone to keep the inter-territorial payments system at work. The need for capital to establish the Escudo Monetary Zone Fund w
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The Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone Its Impact in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa Maria Eugénia Mata
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Maria Eugénia Mata
The Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone Its Impact in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
Maria Eugénia Mata Nova School of Business and Economics Universidade Nova de Lisboa Carcavelos, Portugal
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Preface
The Portuguese decolonisation of the 1970s broke the monetary ties that existed between the Mainland and each of its former colonies, whose names (before and after independence) are always spelled in Portuguese, in this book: • Portuguese India began to use Indian currency (rupee) after it was occupied by India, partly in 1954 (Dadrá and Nagar Havely), partly in 1961 (Goa, Damão and Diu). • São João Batista de Ajudá beg
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