Financial inclusion is about empowering or helping people to help themselves to increase their income, acquire capital, manage risk and work their way out of poverty and into a better life. According to the 2008–2009 Household Income and Expenditure Survey for Fiji, there has been a large increase in the number of self-employed women in our country.
We must harness all our wisdom to devise various arrangements that can uphold the framework of international cooperation – in regard for example to the scope of the central bank’s financial stability mandate, to the associated policy instruments, and to the framework for conduct of the policies concerned.