... currency, the Naira (N1=US$1.08 in December 1980; N1=US$1 in 1985 but N22=US$1 in 1994 and N260=US$1 in December ... Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. INAFRICA: PROSPECTS AND LIMITATIONS. a dizzying rate, founders consolidated ...
... currency, the naira, and making its other exports less price-competitive internationally. Cocoa and palm production ... (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005): p. 36. How oil changed ideas about wealth, religious observance, and ...
... currency, the naira, which had been on par with the US dollar and the British pound sterling during most of the 1970s. The ever-widening exchange rate meant that drug companies could not sell their stock and continued to lose profits. A ...
... currency ( the naira ) devalued against the dollar from parity to eighty , in a series of lurches . Consumer prices re- sponded , lurching upward over the entire ten years : one week , toothpaste , the next macaroni , and the next ...
... currency flow and caused the national currency, the naira, to change in value from 118 per US dollar to 168 per US dollar in a single month. Nigerian traders stopped coming, and some Chungking Mansions merchants suffered greatly. In ...
... Chicago, we received the first package from Florence and behold, it was hundreds of dollars. It was just unbelievable especially when I changed it into the local currency naira and the guy—who never had held in his palm three thousand naira ...
... dollar . The naira was a credible currency not because of its internal semantic properties , such as de- nominational units or engraved designs , but due to its favorable relation to the dollar and the pound . In the object - world of ...
... currency, the naira. Anything involving hard currency was suddenly beyond any filmmaker's budget, including importing film stock and going to London to process footage and do postproduction work, neither of which could be done in ...
... currency is called the naira ? Well , the last time we were due to make a payment of 50 million naira to our ... Chicago . Chicago was the nearest city in the Mid West and it had a railhead . As a result , a huge meat - packing industry ...
... dollar. The naira was a credible currency not because of its internal semantic properties, such as denominational units or engraved designs, but due to its favorable relation to the dollar and the pound.2 In the object world of imports ...