Njuguna Ndung’u: FIRST in development Address by Prof Njuguna Ndung’u, Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, at the FIRST Consultative Group Meeting, Nairobi, 24 November 2008.
As bankers, we can attest to the prominent role played by financial institutions in the development of any economy. In Fiji, the contribution of the financial sector to total real growth or total value added product of the economy is around 9 percent.