Talk:Eco (currency)

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Ondinegreen in topic What does this mean?

Naming right problem edit

Copyright / Naming rights problem may arise from [EYFA's ECO's http://eyfa.org/projects/ecorates] ,in use at least since 1990.

Update needed edit

Someone needs top update the stautus of this. All the refs are from mid to late 2007 ! Passportguy (talk) 19:10, 29 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

I updated the info a bit, but someone with more expertise should look into this in more detail. Passportguy (talk) 19:14, 29 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

  Done Jack Bornholm (talk) 18:50, 17 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

Eco, eco or ECO? edit

The capitalisation "Eco" used in the article is unusual, as in English, currencies are usually spelled in lowercase. However, some sources in the article spell it as "ECO" [1][2]. Anybody care to weigh in? DaßWölf 23:29, 11 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Historybdarkafka edit

According to this article. The original Africa's planned eco zone was to include 15 states.

"Martial Ze Belinga, a Cameroonian economist, told DW: "In a way, we now have two Ecos. One that the 15 African countries voted for and whose name was already decided in 2003. And today there is a new Eco which France and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries have chosen — independently of the others."--2A02:ED0:5FC5:DB00:9DAC:918D:D67F:70A7 (talk) 12:57, 25 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

The History section is problematic edit

More certainly, it is an poor translation (maybe from google translate) and copy paste from something, especially in the latter paragraphs. Anyone to fix it? 188.73.194.219 (talk) 17:30, 22 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

What does this mean? edit

"There are only five countries that ended up in Abuja out of the fifteen of the Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS]", he fumed, cutting the grass under his feet CFA anti-Francs, many of them shouting “white cap and white cap”. It doesn't make any sense to me. Also, all cites should be with references or in blockquotes. --Jakeukalane (talk) 13:55, 29 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

It's a bad translation of text from the corresponding French-language article. Let's give it a better translation:
"Only five countries were present in Abuja out of the fifteen of the Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS]", he fumed, upsetting the plans of those opposed to the CFA Franc, many of whom shouted 'it's the same thing'" [i.e. that the new Eco is the same thing as the old CFA Franc] Ondinegreen (talk) 06:09, 3 February 2023 (UTC)Reply