We have maintained a particular focus on supporting farmers, entrepreneurs as well as small and medium scale businesses, through our various intervention  programs  such  as  the  Anchor  Borrowers Program, Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) and the National Collateral Registry.
The brunt of this has to be borne by the domestic financial system. Though tightly regulated, the financial sector, particularly the banking industry is surely not in the pink of heath. 17. Therefore the question of readiness for full convertibility has to be expanded to several related questions: Is capital control retarding investment and growth of the economy?