Nigeria FX ban: Little price effect, big hit CBN credibility

The Nigerian president’s call to exclude all food importers from the official FX market will probably be poorly-enforced and have little effect on inflation. But the government’s ever-expanding influence over the nominally-independent central bank will deal a further blow to the credibility of the institution.

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