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Nigeria: Oil shock forces CBN to accept inevitable

The controlled devaluation of the naira will help to preserve Nigeria’s scarce FX reserves and encourage foreign investment inflows. Given, however, that officials opted to maintain a dual-track system, we expect that the FX regime will remain complex and open to abuse by connected insiders.

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