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Ugo,
Good morning. Please I have 3 questions for you.
1. How does the MPR affect the lending rate of banks ?
2. What is the connection between the Foreign Reserves and the Import Bill ?
3. What is Foreign Reserve used for and why should we be concerned about its growth ?
Will appreciate you input.
Sola
Hi Sola to respond to your questions 1. The MPR is the base rate banks rely on for setting their lending cost. Currently MPR is 12% so a bank will typically lend at say MPR plus 4% which is 16%. So the higher the MPR the higher the lending rates.
2. Your foreign reserves is the amount in forex that a country has. When you import items you pay the countries of export in forex. So if Nigerian businesses spend $2b on imports monthly and we have just $40b in reserves, it means our reserves can fund 8 months of imports.
3. The higher our foreign reserves the more money we have to pay for imports. More importantly, the higher our foreign reserves the stronger our local currency. Because if foreign countries say 8 months is too small they decrease the value of our currency because of the risk of not being able to pay for the 9 month.
Hope this helps. You can call me or tweet at me @ugodre