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The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank was established in 1983, replacing the East Caribbean Currency Authority (ECCA). Its purpose is to regulate the availability of money and credit; to promote and maintain monetary stability; to promote credit and exchange conditions and a sound financial structure conducive to the balanced growth and development of the economies of the territories of the participating governments; and to actively promote, through means consistent with its other objectives, the economic development of the territories of the participating governments.
Members. Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines.
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Official language: English.
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Headquarters: PO Box 89, Bird Rock, Basseterre, St Kitts and Nevis.
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Website: http://www.eccb-centralbank.org
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Email: info@eccb-centralbank.org
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Governor: Timothy Antoine (Grenada).
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(2019). Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB). In: The Statesman’s Yearbook 2019. The Statesman's Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-95321-9_85
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