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Gambia Banks and Banking, Financial Institutions in The Gambia

www.gambia-holiday-news.co.uk

Sunday, July 01, 2007

The Gambia's financial system is built around the Central Bank of The Gambia, six commercial banks, foreign exchange bureaux, and nine insurance...

ZIMBABWE: Local dollar an endangered species as currency crashes

IRIN

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Zimbabweans are switching to barter, payment in kind and the use of foreign currencies, such as neighbouring South Africa's rand, instead of the...

Central Bank to monitor inflation

The Daily Observer Newspaper

Saturday, June 30, 2007

The Central Bank of The Gambia has informed the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission that it will closely monitor inflation in the coming...

Inflation in Zimbabwe becomes world's highest at 11,000% and rising

Wikinews

Monday, June 25, 2007

Inflation in Zimbabwe is now the worlds highest at 11,000 percent and rising. Reports first came in that the value of the Zimbabwean dollar had...

Ex-Prisons Director Charged With Stealing

The Point

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Ex-Prisons Director Charged With Stealing By Bakary Samateh The former Director of Prisons Department, David Colley, was on Tuesday, 12 June 2007...

LIBERIA: Fake orphans to attract donor funds

IRIN

Sunday, June 03, 2007

Orphanages are big businesses in Liberia attracting millions of dollars in international assistance every year, yet thousands of the so-called...

ZIMBABWE: Wrestling with the effects of hyperinflation

IRIN

Monday, May 28, 2007

Cosmas Maphosa, a male nurse, went to a school uniform shop in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, to buy a winter cardigan for his daughter, but...

Monetary Policy Committee Meeting: Central Bank of the Gambia

Central Bank of the Gambia

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Press Release December 29, 2006 Recent economic data indicated that the strong economic growth achieved in 2005 will be sustained in 2006. According...

Development of Currency in The Gambia

Central Bank of the Gambia

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Until the middle of the nineteenth century the recognised method of payment in The Gambia was by Cowrie Shells. The earliest forms of coin were brass...