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The article establishes thee relationships between key macroeconomic variables and unemployment in ECOWAS countries
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The study is important as it examines the relationship between macroeconomic variables and unemployment at aggregate ECOWAS regional level and sub-groups of country level. That is across Anglophone and Francophone group of countries.
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The paper gives a good insight into the relationship between key macroeconomic variables and unemployment and establishes the invalidity of the Phillips curve hypothesis in the region.
Abiodun Folawewo
University of Ibadan
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This page is a summary of: Macroeconomic Determinants of Unemployment: Empirical Evidence from Economic Community of West African States, African Development Review, June 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8268.12250.
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