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Holding policy rate: the right decision

EDITORIAL: The Monetary Policy Committee kept the policy rate unchanged at 11.5 percent which must be supported. Any increase in the rate would have made borrowing costs for the government (the single largest borrower) as well as the private sector prohibitively expensive that, in turn, would have impacted negatively on the growth rate.

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