Women’s formal ownership of SMEs currently stands at around a third of all registered SMEs in Africa, and womenowned SMEs are more likely to have lower sales and annual turnover, less employees, and smaller size than those enterprises owned by men.
As for us at the Bank of Japan, we will continue to attach great importance to the information and insights we gather through on-site examinations, off-site monitoring, and the Bank’s banking business, and to strive to accurately gauge the risks to the financial system as a whole through our macroeconomic analyses and research activities.