To his end, we have taken the lead in developing Nigeria’s National Financial Inclusion Strategy to ensure that a clear agenda is set for increasing both access and usage of financial services within a defined timeline for excluded groups including women.
In this respect, I see two main challenges for central banks in the coming years. First, in the face of the great uncertainties on the shape, timing and features of the recovery ahead, we must keep producing research in ‘real time’, making use of a broad range of modelling tools and of more sophisticated datasets.