Valério, Nuno2023-02-092023-02-092019Valério, Nuno .(2019). “Monetary decolonisation of the Portuguese Colonial Empire: 1961-1975 and after”. in Estudos em homenagem a José Maria Brandão de Brito. – Org. Alice Cunha, Cristina Rodrigues e Ivo Veiga. Lisboa: Colibri, 1ª Edição: pp. 301-310978-989-689-874-8http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/27215This chapter analyses the monetary evolution of the territories that formed the Portuguese Colonial Empire in the 1950s in the wake of their political decolonisation. Section 1 summarises the political evolution of these territories. Section 2 presents the monetary structure of the Portuguese Colonial Empire before decolonisation. Section 3 explains the different monetary paths followed in the wake of political decolonisation. Section 4 tries to make a preliminary assessment of the links of the monetary evolution with the economic and political evolution of the territories.engEconomic HistoryPortuguese Colonial EmpirePolitical DecolonisationEconomic PolicyEconomic GrowthPortugalbook part