But, as I have noted in the past, participation of older workers, and female workers in most age groups, increased and more than offset the effect of ageing. ﻿[ 2] The lesson here is that we shouldn't focus only on the original shock – but rather how people will react to that shock. People's housing choices changed over the past two years.
The medium-term goal is the operationalisation of Real Time Gross Settlement which would enable real time funds transfers across different banks and thereby the optimal utilisation of funds. Critical to the future of the payment and settlement system of the country is the ongoing research in the IDRBT on messaging systems, security and design specifications for RTGS.