EMERGENCE IN THE WAEMU AND EMCCA AREAS

Valéry IRAGI NTWALI; Guillain CIRHUZA CENTWALI

doi:10.24193/subbeuropaea.2021.2.06

Authors

Valéry IRAGI NTWALI PhD student in Political Science, Paris-Est Creteil University (UPEC-Paris 12). Contact: valeryntwali@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0880-2887
Guillain CIRHUZA CENTWALI Teaching and Research assistant at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Bukavu (UCB-Bukavu). Contact: guillaincirhuza@gmail.com

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeuropaea.2021.2.06

Keywords:

Emergence, Spaces, WAEMU and EMCCA.

Abstract

The Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (EMCCA) and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) have succeeded in stabilizing their monetary systems, but this monetary stability has not been accompanied by real emergence. The economies of most of the member states of these two organizations are based on commodities and cocoa, which means that they are completely volatile and therefore lack the stability necessary for real emergence. This study based mainly on documentary research through the exploitation of reports produced by various international and regional institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, the African Development Bank, ECOWAS, etc., and the writings of various emergence theorists, shows the role that industrialization and diversification of the economies of the WAEMU and EMCCA zones should play in the development of the economies of the member states and the improvement of the living conditions of the populations.

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