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  2. Eritrean nakfa - Wikipedia

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    The nakfa is pegged to the US dollar at a fixed rate of US$1 = ERN 15. At earlier times, [when?] it was officially pegged at US$1 = ERN 13.50. The currency is not fully convertible, so black market rates available on the streets typically offered a rate of 15 nakfas per dollar. [2] [needs update]

  3. 2024 Ethiopian foreign exchange rate policy - Wikipedia

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    On 1 August, the government ordered the shutdown of dozens of businesses due to surging prices of basic commodities in Addis Ababa. Addis Ababa City Trade Bureau spokesperson Sewnet Ayele said, "the businesses were caught making unreasonable price increases, mostly on food items. The stocks were imported before the new exchange rate."

  4. List of countries by exchange rate regime - Wikipedia

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    Pegged exchange rate within horizontal bands (1) Morocco ; Other managed arrangement (12) Kuwait Syria Liberia Myanmar Sierra Leone Zimbabwe Kenya Haiti Kyrgyzstan Tonga Vanuatu Venezuela ; Floating (32) Angola Belarus Madagascar Yemen Albania

  5. Black market - Wikipedia

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    A black market in Shinbashi in 1946 Illegal street traders in Barcelona in 2015. A black market, underground economy, shadow market or shadow economy is a clandestine market or series of transactions that has some aspect of illegality or is not compliant with an institutional set of rules. If the rule defines the set of goods and services whose ...

  6. List of circulating fixed exchange rate currencies - Wikipedia

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    Fixed currency Anchor currency Rate (anchor / fixed) Abkhazian apsar: Russian ruble: 0.1 Alderney pound (only coins) [1]: Pound sterling: 1 Aruban florin: U.S. dollar: 1.79

  7. Ethiopian birr - Wikipedia

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    The birr (Amharic: ብር) is the primary unit of currency in Ethiopia.It is subdivided into 100 santims.. In 1931, Emperor Haile Selassie formally requested that the international community use the name Ethiopia (as it had already been known internally for at least 1,600 years [2]) instead of the exonym Abyssinia, and the issuing Bank of Abyssinia also became the Bank of Ethiopia.

  8. National Bank of Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    Bank of Ethiopia (1934) 1934 On 15 February 1906, marked the beginning of banking in Ethiopia when the first Bank of Abyssinia was inaugurated by Emperor Menelik II.It was a private bank whose shares were sold in Addis Ababa, New York, Paris, London, and Vienna.

  9. Banking in Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    Shortly after proclamation, Awash International Bank was established in 1994 by 486 shareholders and by 1998 its capital reached up to 50 million ETB. Dashen Bank was established on 20 September 1995 as a share company with capital 50 million ETB. Wegagen, Nib International Bank, and Cooperative Bank of Oromia Bank ensued. [2]