The Nigerian government’s decision to ban all trade across the country’s land borders on Tuesday will only have a small macroeconomic impact, but it highlights the worrying shift towards more interventionist and protectionist policymaking. Elsewhere, soft South African retail sales figures for August published this week add to the evidence that the economy may have contracted in Q3.
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