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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved, in principle, a three-year loan for Nigeria worth US $76 million. The loan, part of the IMF’s Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, would help reduce poverty and spur economic growth. IMF Deputy Managing Director Eduardo Aninat said: “The programme is cast in a context of increased democratisation, administrative decentralisation and regional integration of the Economic Community of West African States and the West African Economic Monetary Union.”
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