This is particularly challenging given our lack of sufficient knowledge to serve as a guide. Country experiences of sustainable growth are too diverse to draw universally applicable and time-invariant lessons. And the theoretical underpinnings of sustainable growth seem too abstract to offer practical guidance for reforms. I am confident, however, that collective wisdom and creative thinking will ultimately emerge.
Of course nurturing a new generation of savers and financially literate adults entails a lot of work and unflagging commitment from all of us. For this, we need all the help we can get. This is the reason why we at the Bangko Sentral are very pleased that no less than the heads of our principal partners are here with us this morning.