Our much-maligned stewardship of the Bank, including our monetary policy – with accusations of policy zig-zagging, questions about why the Governor was still in post, and in one notorious editorial in a major local daily, in November 2008, calling the Governor the chief putschist who would no doubt meet the same fate in the “ides of December” as befell Caesar in the ides of March, a near-incitement to murder the incumbent – that policy has earned kudos from knowledgeable observers who have examined the evidence and have pronounced that it can serve as a model for others in our situation.
4. The resilience of our banking sector  In an economy whose financial system is largely dominated by banks, major uncertainties in the market can emanate from the banking sector itself.