ENAM 2021-2022 Syllabus Cycle A of the Financial Division Concours MINFOPRA Cameroun

ENAM 2021-2022 Syllabus Cycle A of the Financial Division. 

A – GENERAL KNOWLEDGE:

•  Literature, Philosophy. Modern History.
• Developments in Science and Technology.
• Civilization.
• Arts And Culture
• Minorities
• Gender and development
• Regional integration.

B- ECONOMICS
1- Microeconomics

a) Principles of Microeconomics

• Market research (Demand and Supply)
• Consumer behaviour.
• The producer and production theory
• Short and long-term cost
• Production function.
• The theory of prices in perfect competition : short and long term equilibrium.
• Price theory in perfect monopoly : short and long term equilibrium.
• Monopolistic competition.
• Oligopoly.

b) Applied Microeconomics

• Industrial and business firms in Cameroon : specific problems of management.
• Taxes and effects in perfect competition; short and long term Effects. Effects in monopoly.
• Problems raised by price control and quantity control in competition and in monopoly.
• Sector-based policies.

2.Macroeconomics

a) Income, Savings Consumption

Determination of national income

• National income function
• Investment function.
• Income-expenditure model
• The multiplier : principles and constraints.

Fluctuation in income

• The acceleration.
• The oscilliation.

b) Equilibrium models and Macro Economic Disequilibrium

ISLM model

• Principles and functioning
• Implications

Relationship between inflation and unemployment

• Philip’s curve
• Issues faced by the Keynessian and Neoclassical theories.

Equilibrium with rationing

• Keynesian unemployment
• Classical unemployment
• The scope of models.

Revival of neoclassical analysis through the introduction of anticipation

• Formation of anticipations;
• Conclusions of the analysis.

c) Structural Adjustment Programme

• Theoretical basis
• The search for external and internal equilibrium
• Economic revival.

3- Monetary Economic

a) Money and monetary supply

• Definition, Functions and properties of money ; 
• Monetary aggregates
• Monetary supply composition and counterparts;

b) Money supply and demand

• Determinants of money supply.
• Determinants of money demand.

c) Financial institutions

• The Central Bank
• Commercial Banks
• Other institutions
• The Treasury.

d) The Money Market and Financial Market

• Actors and mechanisms .
• The interbank markets and the open markets
• The role of the Central Bank
• Actors and the organization of the financial market.
• The stock exchange.
• New financial instruments.

e) Monetary Policy

• Objectives and instruments of monetary policies
• The discount rate policy
• The Open market policy
• Obligation reserve policies
• Selectivity and credit control
• Limits of the monetary policy in the franc zone
•  Developments in international finance
• Developing countries debt.

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