True True 1 1 1 10 True False False Jookyung Ree Load More Central banks | Podcast Jookyung Ree on the eNaira, One Year After Nigeria’s eNaira was the first Central Bank Digital Currency in Africa and only the second in the world when it launched in October 2021, but a growing number of countries across the globe are now planning to follow suit with their own CBDCs. What can they learn from Nigeria’s experience? Jookyung Ree is an economist in the IMF African Department and assigned to Nigeria when the CBDC was introduced. Ree has since studied its impact on the economy and found that existing mobile money networks are proving a challenge to the eNaira’s adoptability. Jookyung Ree See Also Magazine Archives Country Focus Blogs