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Nigeria’s economy heading from bad to worse

Nigeria’s demonetisation efforts are likely to add to already-high economic costs of the country’s unorthodox policies. The resulting currency falls will fuel inflation further and disruptions to activity are more or less inevitable, supporting our below-consensus view for GDP to expand by just 2.3% this year.

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