The CBN and Institution Building
The pyrotechnics notwithstanding, the hijinks last week around the fate in office of the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), did have a useful part. For an economy[…]
Tagged: Central Bank
The CBN’s Currency Restructuring Exercise: Matters Arising
Much of the ensuing conversation since the CBN governor announced plans, a week ago, to restructure the naira has dwelt on the decision to introduce higher denomination banknotes. The cons[…]
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Anthropologically Speaking · Column
The need for an ethnography of the Nigerian financial sector
In the BusinessDay of January 5, 2010 Anthropologist Karen Ho carried out a seventeen-month-long fieldwork on Wall Street, interviewing and observing investment bankers. She first started out working as a[…]