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Kingdom of Lesotho: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

December 28, 2005

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper on the Kingdom of Lesotho reviews the broad objectives and key institutional features of the Common Monetary Area (CMA) relating to currency arrangements. The CMA Agreement provides for the three small member countries to have access to South African capital and money markets, but only through prescribed investments or approved securities that can be held by financial institutions in South Africa. Lesotho’s exchange rate arrangement under the CMA shares certain characteristics of a currency board.

Subject: Currencies, Economic integration, Exchange rates, Exports, Foreign exchange, Health, HIV and AIDS, International trade, Monetary unions, Money

Keywords: Adjustment effort, Africa, Aids, AIDS program, CMA agreement, CR, Currencies, Currency, Exchange rates, Exports, Garment sector, Global, HIV, HIV and AIDS, ISCR, Lesotho, Monetary unions, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Trade preference

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    77

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2005/438

  • Stock No:

    1LSOEA2005002

  • ISBN:

    9781451823837

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685