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Rates set to tumble if CBK refocuses on growth

The country’s benchmark interest rate looks set to fall if the Central Bank takes advantage of slowing inflation to attack the eye-watering commercial lending rates stifling growth.

A year ago, inflation was ripping through the economy and even global Twitter streams were humming with protests at policymakers’ slow response.

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