Women’s Financial Inclusion, Digital Financial Services, and COVID-19 Policy Response: Case of Fiji

After nearly a decade of real growth, the pandemic and natural disasters presented Fiji with one of the world’s worst socio-economic disruptions in 2020 and 2021.

However, they were also provided an opportunity to build resilience and encourage economic diversification for stronger, more sustainable, resilient, and equitable growth. With well-established structures of coordination and collaboration covering public sector and private sector, the Reserve Bank of Fiji was able to see through the implementation of long-term policies and the launch of crisis response.