The foreign-exchange auction turns two this month. Its 25 rounds since August 2024 have offered a running scorecard of the dollar market. More often than not the bids have run ahead of the dollars on offer. The auctions have injected substantial foreign currency into commercial banks and helped establish a more transparent mechanism for determining the birr’s price. But after two years, the most striking feature of the programme is how rarely th…
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