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This paper discusses whether adopting the U.S. dollar as the sole legal tender could help Liberia, a postconflict economy, to boost growth and strengthen fiscal discipline. In view of the performance of exchange rate regimes in many countries and Liberia's own experience with dollarization, we conclude that Liberia should not adopt full dollarization for the following reasons: (i) the alleged benefits voiced by the proponents of dollarization, in terms of enhanced fiscal discipline and faster economic growth, are not supported by the empirical evidence; (ii) dollarization would increase the Liberian economy's vulnerability to external shocks and Liberia's social fragility; (iii) banks in fully dollarized economies face additional capitalization requirements that Liberian banks cannot meet at present; and (iv) dollarization would be costly in terms of real resources because of the loss of seigniorage.

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Paper provided by International Monetary Fund in its series IMF Working Papers with number 06/82.

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Date of creation: 01 Mar 2006
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Handle: RePEc:imf:imfwpa:06/82

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Keywords: Dollarization; Banking systems; Economic growth; Fiscal management; Post-conflict emergency assistance;

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

• NEP-AFR-2006-08-05 (Africa)
• NEP-ALL-2006-08-05 (All new papers)
• NEP-FMK-2006-08-05 (Financial Markets)
• NEP-MON-2006-08-05 (Monetary Economics)

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1. Jeta Menkulasi & Lodewyk Erasmus & Jules Leichter, 2009. "Dedollarization in Liberia-Lessons from Cross-country Experience," IMF Working Papers 09/37, International Monetary Fund.

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