According to the report, the persistent decline in the amount of capital flowing into Nigeria is attributed to 'low investor confidence due to the ambiguous foreign exchange regime.' investor
Nigerian Forex Inflows: 'Ambiguous Foreign Exchange Regime' Blamed After Inflows Dropped to $5.32 Billion in 2022
Between 2019 and 2022, the value of foreign capital that flowed into Nigeria dropped from $23.9 billion to $5.32 billion. The drop has been attributed to low investor confidence, the high cost of doing business, as well as the country’s high inflation rate. Nigeria will “struggle to keep the naira to the dollar exchange rate from depreciating further” until both crude oil and non-oil exports are boosted, an accounting firm has asserted.
The challenges encountered when seeking to access foreign exchange as well as Nigeria’s high inflation rate and interest rates are listed as some of the factors that contributed to the “precipitous decline” in foreign capital flowing into the country. Besides the country’s ongoing foreign exchange woes, the report said Nigeria’s failure to lower the cost of doing business makes it a less-than-ideal foreign investment destination.
“Beyond the rigidity and lack of clarity in the FX [foreign exchange] management system, other factors have discouraged Foreign Direct Investment and capital inflow, in general, such as security challenges, ease of doing business issues particularly as it relates to the infrastructure deficit, overly stringent policies and bureaucratic bottlenecks for securing permits and a perceived weak legal framework, which make it expensive to do business in Nigeria are contributing to the reasons foreign...
Meanwhile, the KPMG report ends by stating that Nigeria will likely “struggle to keep the naira to the dollar exchange rate from depreciating further” unless both crude oil and non-oil exports are boosted.Tags in this story
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