Policymakers in Nigeria kept their benchmark rate on hold at 11.50% at today’s MPC meeting and will probably continue to do so over 2021-23. And the central bank’s insistence on maintaining a strong currency using disruptive foreign exchange rules is likely to come at an increasingly high economic cost.
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