More specifically, I want to thank the Bank of Tanzania and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), for providing a platform for its members to enhance financial inclusion and for their continued and focused support towards this initiative.
At the turn of the 21st century, billions of dollars’ worth of debt was wiped clean across sub-Saharan Africa. South Africa was instrumental in pushing for debt relief and we succeeded in late 1990s when the HIPIC programme was agreed through the Development Committee of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.