The plan gave adequate priority to agriculture and industrial development as well as training of high-level and intermediate manpower. However, the disruptions to economic activities during the period later paved way for broader economic policies for reconciliation and reconstruction. Thus, the Second National Development Plan, 1970–1974, was launched primarily to reconstruct and rehabilitate infrastructure that had been damaged during the civil war.
On top of this, FinTech renders some of the long-standing regulatory practices ineffective. This means that regulators need to become more flexible. If they do not, they risk not fitting through the doors opened up by new technologies. To put it bluntly, without adapting to rapidly changing financial developments, regulators may find themselves sidelined and unable to meet expectations.