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0:00okay let me
0:01let me go back uh today another summer
0:04started but i wanted to start my speech
0:06with
0:06taking you back to the summit in the
0:08year 2000
0:10when the millennium development goals
0:12were conceived
0:14um at that year all the world leaders in
0:17new york came together and they signed
0:19the millennium declaration in which they
0:21pledged we will spare no effort
0:24to put an end to extreme poverty we will
0:27spare no effort to get every kid to
0:29school we will spare no effort to
0:32radically reduce child mortality
0:34maternal mortality to reverse the aids
0:36pandemic etc all by the year 2015.
0:40and it was a great start of the
0:43the century of the 21st century this
0:45millennium
0:46because indeed
0:47for the first time in the history of
0:50mankind we have the means
0:52we have the resources and we have the
0:53knowledge to actually achieve these
0:56development goals and what happened in
0:58the year 2000 was this miracle that was
1:00even political consensus at the highest
1:04level across the globe about who should
1:07be doing what
1:08and how they should be implemented
1:10developing countries acknowledge that
1:12they are primarily responsibly
1:15responsible for achieving the goals but
1:17for the first time the rich countries
1:19really acknowledged publicly
1:21that they
1:22have to do a better job helping poor
1:25countries and that without that poor
1:27countries will not achieve these goals
1:30and these commitments are in the eighth
1:32goal and i will get back to
1:34that but let me first look at what we
1:37did over the last 12 years and actually
1:40i think there's a lot of good news you
1:42know we always tend to accentuate the
1:44negative the uh is really good at that
1:47but i think once in a while we should
1:48also celebrate progress
1:51and definitely the medium goals have
1:53enormously spurred action all across the
1:55globe many poor country governments have
1:59improved their governance
2:01they improved their policies and indeed
2:04rich countries have taken some not
2:06enough steps to increase the level and
2:09increase the effectiveness of their aid
2:10programs
2:11and you see there's progress across a
2:14large number of countries a large number
2:16of indicators
2:17the goals have helped to lift hundreds
2:19of millions of people out of poverty
2:21save life ensure that children attend
2:24school and they have reduced maternal
2:26death
2:27and expanded opportunities for women
2:30increased access to clean water freed
2:32many people from deadly and devastating
2:34diseases
2:35and in fact the number of people living
2:38in extreme poverty has declined in all
2:41regions all over the world and thus thus
2:43the first goal
2:45of halfing it proportionally has already
2:48been achieved
2:49and in education the second goal major
2:52advances have been made in getting
2:54children through school in many of
2:56particularly the poorest countries most
2:58of them in sub-saharan africa beating
3:00every historical record of acceleration
3:03of number of kids going to school
3:05the sixth goal is in reach
3:07new hiv aids infections are declining
3:10led by sub-saharan africa
3:13as are the number of age-related deaths
3:15thanks to huge increases of people
3:17receiving treatment and the same is true
3:19for melania for tuberculosis and
3:22actually the safe drinking water gold
3:24has already which is part of goal seven
3:26has already been achieved five years ago
3:30alas the two goals the news is a little
3:32bit more mixed child and maternal
3:35mortality
3:36child mortality has been reduced by a
3:38third which is actually incredible news
3:41given historical records that is huge
3:44progress but the goal actually was to
3:46reduce it
3:48by
3:49two-thirds and of course that were not
3:51attracted to me
3:52seeing with maternal mentality the sixth
3:54goal the number of women dying in
3:56childbirth
3:58and related complications
4:00has almost half again that is great news
4:04but over a quarter a quarter of a
4:06million women every year still die in
4:09pregnancy at a great presently we have
4:12we will not achieve the goal of reducing
4:15maternal mortality by three quarters
4:18now partly this lagging of the child and
4:21maternal authority goal has to do with a
4:22more general problem problem that
4:25progress
4:26tends to bypass
4:27those that are lowest on the economic
4:29ladder or are otherwise disadvantaged
4:32because of their sex their age
4:33disabilities ethnicity
4:36and also hardcore poverty continues to
4:39exist in sub-saharan africa
4:42but i don't want you to feel discouraged
4:44by those who claim
4:46that many poor countries are off track i
4:48actually hate that term
4:51because the marine development goals
4:52were never meant
4:54to be achieved individually in every
4:56single country that would not have been
4:58fair otherwise poorest countries would
5:01have been placed at a huge disadvantage
5:04for instance if you have to half the
5:05proportion of your poor
5:07that means a much higher level of
5:09performance from a country that starts
5:11with 80 percent of your people in
5:13extreme poverty than when it's only 20
5:16so instead of monitoring progress per
5:19country in terms of how much off track
5:21or on track they are in terms of the
5:23global goals you should actually try to
5:27see what the commitment of these
5:29countries are as measures
5:31by the effort to accelerate
5:34progress in achieving the goals and if
5:35you apply that method
5:37then
5:38if you compare the rate of improvement
5:40of indicators before
5:43and after
5:44then the storyline is dramatically
5:46different in fact eight of the top 10
5:49countries whose progress with the goals
5:51has accelerated most rapidly are in
5:54sub-saharan africa and progress among
5:56the least developed countries on average
5:58is better than faster than among
6:02non-ldc's
6:03so let's avoid laboring any countries as
6:06failures when they fall short of exactly
6:09being the global target at their
6:11national level now this progress that
6:13has been spurred by the millennium
6:15development goals is unprecedented
6:17if you look at the history of the united
6:19nations over the last 60 years
6:21multiple goals for economic and social
6:24development have been set everywhere
6:26but the degree in
6:28which
6:29the goals set became goals met
6:33dependent on the degree that these goals
6:36were known
6:37and owned publicly
6:39beyond the u.n bureaucrats and the
6:43development agencies and from that
6:45perspective the millennium goals have
6:47actually broken all records they have
6:49proven to be to have enormous popular
6:52power because they are clear
6:54concise they're time-bound and they put
6:57a human face on development and have
6:59proven to be a fantastic value as a
7:02framework to mobilize citizens and
7:05citizens mobilization is key
7:07because we live in a world of sovereign
7:09states
7:10and action is decided by national
7:13policies
7:15and actions
7:16country by country
7:18on the first seven goals by developing
7:20countries among eight by rich countries
7:23the u.n can create
7:25a platform an opportunity for
7:27governments to make
7:28commitments but it cannot enforce
7:31compliance the secretary general cannot
7:33send the police to austria if it fails
7:36to live up to the 0.7 that's been
7:38promising for decades
7:40it is only the citizens of this country
7:43and their representative in parliament
7:46that can hold their government to
7:47account for the promises that they make
7:50at international conferences
7:52and governments both north and south
7:55south just need up need to live up to
7:58what they promise internationally but
8:00they will only translate these promises
8:03in national policies
8:05when persistent and well organized
8:07constituencies domestically demand that
8:11so citizen support for anything agreed
8:14at the u.n is key in terms of having it
8:16implemented and if you then look at the
8:18goals you see in developing countries
8:20how these goals continue to inspire
8:23civil society to empower citizens to
8:26demand from their governments to deliver
8:29and to be accountable for these promises
8:32and i think governance is ultimately the
8:35most important factor to end poverty
8:39and it only improves governments in poor
8:41countries not by lectures of foreign
8:44donors
8:45and conditions but only when their own
8:47citizens
8:48force them to start acting recently
8:52and in many rich countries the goals
8:54have been used by civil society
8:57to educate citizens in rich countries
8:59about global poverty and they
9:01contributed to this emerging consensus
9:04in rich countries
9:05that actually the persistence of extreme
9:08poverty
9:09in an affluent world is actually morally
9:13unacceptable
9:14and these campaigns have helped to
9:16cement the political will
9:18that has led to unprecedented
9:20commitments by european union members to
9:23finally achieve the 0.7 with the time
9:25path
9:26um even if they haven't implemented it
9:29it really has created a breakthrough
9:32and i think this public support for the
9:34goals have been a crucial element to
9:36make that possible so the key
9:38achievement of the median goals is the
9:39extent that they have mobilized public
9:41opinion and political support
9:44now today two and a half years left
9:46until the
9:48we end up the in 2015 and you see
9:51that the debates already have started
9:53across the globe what do we do after
9:552015.
9:57now to me one thing is clear
10:00any post 2015 agreement needs to
10:03maintain that popular momentum we should
10:06not throw away
10:08that enormous capital of
10:10public
10:12support for these goals
10:14but also
10:15the goals objectives that you know were
10:17limited half reduced by two thirds
10:20reduced by three quarters so there is a
10:23large unfinished post 2015 agenda but
10:27that doesn't mean that in the run of
10:282015 we shouldn't evaluate on how to
10:32improve these instruments to achieve the
10:34goals and there's one flaw that has been
10:37already widely recognized and that is
10:39that the goals as such the way they are
10:42used
10:43they ignore
10:44inequality progress is measured in
10:47averages global level national level
10:50that ignores inequality issues
10:53and that is lethal
10:54because partly if the goals will not be
10:56achieved it is in partly because
10:59of disparities within countries
11:03or where they achieve rng the much of
11:05latin america for instance
11:07progress might have left totally out the
11:09very poor the very vulnerable
11:12if you only measure national leverages
11:15then progress might reflect advances
11:18for those populations just under
11:22under the line
11:24under the thresholds and it puts a
11:26premium for government action to lift
11:28those up and then in fact
11:31the inequality between these and those
11:33left behind might even increase
11:35so progress
11:37in these averages masks
11:40what is also called the ugly underbelly
11:42of globalization
11:44growing inequality and equality i was
11:47there was not on the agenda in the year
11:492000
11:51and we also had no proper data on it at
11:54the time and without data you can't make
11:57policies right
11:58but since a whole a lot of research has
12:01been done and it gained huge currency if
12:03you look at the summit in 2010
12:06where heads of states looked at progress
12:09there's very strong language about
12:11everybody's concern with inequality
12:13so there's a growing consensus the need
12:16to move away from averages but focus on
12:19lifting the floor
12:21for the most vulnerable and unprotected
12:23and that brings me to the subject of
12:26social protection as you said in the
12:28introduction i remember of the i'm a
12:29member of the bachelet group of the who
12:33and the
12:34and the ilo who written report about it
12:37to promote the concept
12:39to ensure that no one on earth should
12:41live below a certain income level and
12:44that everybody should have access to at
12:46least basic social services
12:49and social protection makes sense
12:51exactly for the poorest and most
12:54vulnerable because the essence of
12:56poverty is
12:57more than anything else
12:59the permanent lack of security
13:02where does your next meal come from
13:04what is the next health catastrophe
13:07in our family gonna cost me
13:09and the poor don't have resources to
13:12fall back on
13:13now of course social protection sounds a
13:15bit like okay that's great for rich or
13:17middle-income countries and indeed
13:20poorer border countries financial
13:21options are somewhat limited but it's in
13:24but you see that by now
13:26even some of the poorest countries in
13:28africa have successful examples
13:32of social protection
13:34um
13:35for instance
13:37cash transfers or what happened in
13:39rwanda
13:44they have
13:45extended basic health education basic
13:48health to basically
13:49near universal coverage i always like to
13:52make this example of the united states
13:55but for us it's an issue of civilization
13:57to have basic health insurance for
13:59everybody
14:02and as economies grow and fiscal space
14:05grows then you can expand the levels of
14:08social protection and across the
14:10developing world you see incredibly good
14:12examples
14:13of success
14:15stories like the brazilian bosa familia
14:18which provides basic income security for
14:21poor families in the form of cash
14:23transfers
14:24now
14:25so that's one issue that should be on
14:28the agenda
14:29in the post 2015 discussion the other
14:32issue is and i'm
14:34answering a bit of this because you had
14:36asked me to
14:37at the summit starting today
14:40the whole debate on sustainable
14:42development the whole debate on climate
14:43change
14:44should not should that not be one way or
14:47another be incorporated in the 2015 post
14:502015 consensus
14:53now i'm afraid that
14:56what is starting today in leo
14:58is call the earth summit but will
15:00definitely not
15:01save the earth
15:03the whole debate now for everybody who
15:05follows us knows this is more about
15:07preventing further steps back
15:10not about progress and there's the
15:12absolute usual deadlock between north
15:15and south and which countries are trying
15:18to whittle out of the commitments they
15:20made in rio 20 years ago
15:23they don't want to reconfirm these
15:26principles they agreed on them on
15:28financing on transfer of technology
15:31and on this
15:33principle of common and differentiated
15:35responsibilities which demands that more
15:38efforts will be made by rich countries
15:40not just because they can fork can
15:42afford them better but also give the
15:44responsibility of us rich countries for
15:46so much of the present pollution
15:49the emissions and the resource depletion
15:51now
15:52so i just don't see anything happening
15:55there the coming week
15:57but what i found interesting is that
15:59some countries have
16:00tabled a new concept about
16:03sustainable development targets
16:06to complement and reinforce the
16:08millennium development goals
16:10but there is no consensus on that
16:12whatsoever developing countries are
16:14extraordinarily suspicious
16:16that which countries want to dilute
16:19the development dimension of sustainable
16:21development
16:22and you know the lack of action of which
16:24countries on the millennium development
16:26goal on goal 8 i'll get back to that
16:28labor doesn't really help to build much
16:32confidence
16:33but even if this difficult impossible
16:35political situation can be overcome let
16:38me tell you i've been there it takes
16:40years and years let alone having heads
16:43of states and governments sign up to a
16:45detailed framework to actually get
16:47global consensus on concise goals on
16:50clear goals timeout on targets
16:53indicators etc so this is a process that
16:57alas not sure how long the earth can
16:59wait but it's not going to happen soon
17:01so
17:02i don't feel that those who care about
17:04the environment should actually wait
17:05until the uh cemetery delivers anything
17:08and what i always want to mention as a
17:11european when i make speeches in europe
17:14i always feel that we can just set some
17:16examples ourselves and blatant example
17:19that i always like to mention is
17:21agriculture
17:22this sector causes almost a third of the
17:24global greenhouse emissions
17:27why can't we just set the example as
17:29europeans
17:30put an end and eliminate all the
17:33damaging farm subsidies
17:35and changing our common agriculture
17:37policies would also be extremely helpful
17:40to reach out to the developing countries
17:43showing that we care about their
17:45development because
17:47two out of three
17:49poor people in the world
17:51are actually depending on agriculture
17:54giving rural areas and they won't lift
17:56themselves out of our poverty as long as
17:59our agricultural partners policy
18:01continues to destroy the markets that
18:03they depend on
18:04and it is the present food crisis is
18:07partly the result of decades and decades
18:11of trait distorting subsidies
18:13particularly european
18:14and high terrors here that have
18:16discouraged any investment in african
18:19agriculture
18:21and in fact already millennium
18:23development goal 8 does refer but in
18:25very vague terms to the need for us to
18:28open our markets for products from our
18:30country to reduce barriers particularly
18:33for agriculture products so it would be
18:34wonderful if we could move a bit on that
18:38and this brings me to go right because
18:40whatever the future framework
18:42of um
18:44the millennium development goals they
18:46will simply not be reached
18:48particularly nano subs in africa
18:51if we rich countries don't adhere to our
18:53promises
18:55and if you compare
18:56your judge progress to the goals
18:59what poor countries have been doing
19:01to implement them and what we have been
19:03doing
19:04then the verdict is really clear also by
19:06the heart-moved economists of the imf
19:09from the world bank
19:10that
19:11that we the rich countries are lagging
19:13in implementing our part of the deal
19:16to achieve 0.7 of our national income
19:19for gate to improve the effectiveness
19:21rate and to help to change the rules of
19:23international trade
19:25and i'm not saying i'm always very
19:27blonde and open about this
19:29and otherwise it would be helpful
19:32that
19:33austria frankly is among the eo 15 above
19:36the worst performer ultra committed
19:38itself as you know as a member of the eu
19:40to achieve 0.51 in 2010
19:44added
19:45to 0.7 2015
19:47but it's filled and it's failing its
19:49promise with only 0.27
19:53spent last year
19:54you actually rank even lower than spain
19:57and portugal
19:58and only within the eu
20:0115 only greece is doing worse than you
20:05and this is particularly
20:07disturbing because most economists
20:10strongly feel
20:11that country like austria and the
20:13numbers in germany by the way
20:14given all the historic austerity and
20:16deflationary policies in part of the
20:18eurozone are in a superb position to
20:21raise spending a view of inadequate
20:23global demand and what would be a better
20:26way
20:27to do so than increase your development
20:29cooperation budget
20:31now let me also say a few words about
20:34the quality of aid because i think that
20:35is at least as important as the volume
20:39alas again austria lags on its
20:41commitments to improve aid effectiveness
20:43if you i just can refer you to the
20:46peer reviews of the oecd
20:49development assistance committee
20:51but a more updated and very good tool to
20:54assess quality of aid among osd
20:55countries has been developed by the
20:57center for global development and it's
21:00called quota the quality of oda and you
21:02can find it on the website cgdef.org
21:06and then you will see that austria
21:09scores well below the average
21:12in the oecd
21:14on all dimensions of inequality that
21:16they measure and let me just mention a
21:18few examples
21:20first and most importantly
21:22austria fails to deliver aid in a way
21:25that enables poor country
21:27to take charge and use it for their own
21:30programs to achieve their end goals
21:32more than 80 percent
21:34of ocean aids cannot be used by
21:37developing countries to fund their
21:38programs
21:39of this indicator among osd countries
21:42and that includes korea etc
21:44the worst performance except for greece
21:47secondly it doesn't go
21:50to poor countries that need it now i
21:52understand that there's always a bit of
21:53geopolitics in any budget
21:55but in this case it's only 20
21:58of all of your eight budget that goes to
22:00low income countries so a whopping 80
22:04goes to countries that don't need
22:06external conceptual resources at all
22:08and some of them are striving
22:10economically while the rest of us and
22:12reception and they become donors
22:14themselves
22:15china turkey is still on the list of
22:17recipients
22:19third points
22:20that austria actually
22:22the most
22:23best way to face is the way i did it in
22:26switzerland because
22:27austria switzerland share this
22:30um this this point
22:32is a substantial recipient of its own
22:36aid
22:37you know that administrative costs to
22:40run your aid budget are paid out of that
22:42same a budget that's meant to fall you
22:45know poverty reduction out there and
22:47you've got the highest administrative
22:49costs and you know so there's
22:51on top of that
22:53except for korea and again greece you
22:56square the worst on time of it so a lot
22:59of irrated countries are forced to spend
23:03uh
23:05products procured in austria this
23:08is a very bad practice
23:10and it's also very corruption grow pro
23:13so most donors got rid of it but again
23:16together with korea and greece
23:19you're not doing well
23:21now this is not an easy time and i you
23:24know everybody in this audience will be
23:26allies on this
23:27uh to actually advocate
23:30to the for for the world's poor
23:32and you see across europe a legitimacy
23:35crisis of official development
23:37resistance even in countries like mine
23:39where there used to be for decades a
23:42very strong constituency
23:45um and that support of audience is
23:47taking a deep dive and i find that
23:50extremely tragic
23:51because yes
23:52it was wasted in the past
23:55but the international community over the
23:57last decade has taken enormous csv steps
24:00international grade steps to improve aid
24:03effectiveness today there is an
24:05internationally broad consensus
24:07based on evidence
24:09of well-documented lessons of half a
24:11century of aid part of which failed
24:14so today at least the donors know and
24:17acknowledge that they are part of the
24:19problem and they've committed themselves
24:21to become part of the solution
24:24and concrete action has been agreed
24:27lastly
24:28in the fall conference in busan
24:31and the eu member states last month
24:34now all the owners struggle with
24:36implementation of these lessons but
24:38again austria remains below the average
24:41in implementing them
24:42and let me tell you a bit about what
24:44these lessons are because part of it is
24:47that the public doesn't know what
24:48quality of aid is
24:51now the most important issue that is
24:53reflected in that new consensus
24:56is that donors must realize
24:58it is not us the donors it's not our aid
25:02that develop developing countries
25:05developing companies develop themselves
25:08and they are responsible
25:10and they have to be in charge of their
25:13development and without that ownership
25:16by developing countries of the process
25:19no aid yields lasting results
25:22now the traditional
25:24mode of aid
25:26was all kind of individual projects
25:29subjected to the donors procedures
25:32often ignoring the overall policies and
25:35responsibilities of developing country
25:37governments
25:38and this donor-led approach project
25:41approach to development led to this raft
25:44of very small uncoordinated donor
25:46projects with even when they were
25:48successful never really made a dent
25:52on development you see these projects
25:54where tiny items of perfection and
25:56oceans of despair
25:58but they collapsed back into the ocean
26:02um the moment the donor left because you
26:04can build your little school or hospital
26:06but who is gonna pay the salaries for
26:08the teachers and the church and the
26:10nurses and the maintenance
26:12so
26:13it didn't work and that old-fashioned
26:15aid also inhibited good governance
26:18accountability to us donors
26:21the pay master replaced about ability
26:24where it should be
26:26to their own citizens and to their own
26:28parliaments and this project approach is
26:30also enormously wasteful they're a huge
26:34transaction but you should realize that
26:36in today's world there are 225
26:40bilateral donors agencies and even more
26:43multilateral one and again also is part
26:46of the problem because you don't have
26:47one agency recipients have to deal with
26:50several
26:51and imagine that you're a poor recipient
26:53so you're working in the finance
26:55minister of a poor country you have to
26:57deal with all the different donor
26:58interests
26:59each with their different procedures
27:01each you have to report to
27:04and ask questions while they often
27:05operate in exactly the same direction uh
27:08sector you have to have meetings with
27:10them wine and dining
27:11take them for photo opportunities to
27:13their little projects
27:15now
27:16already scarce capacity in poor
27:18countries should be focused on managing
27:22their development
27:23not their donors programs
27:25and we donors we have to stop thinking
27:29about our austria or our dutch projects
27:33we should start
27:34thinking about their policies their
27:37education those are mixed education
27:39policies rwanda's health policies so we
27:43have to move away from building our
27:45schools and hospitals
27:47and we should stop
27:49are imposing our agendas and our
27:52priorities now despite all the lip
27:54service over a decade
27:56donors still continue to be addicted to
27:59micromanage their heroes now how come
28:02i think as a former minister that at the
28:05root of this is
28:07that parliaments and taxpayers want to
28:10know
28:11where did my tax euro go
28:15did it reduce poverty
28:17and i know that is
28:19information which is critical
28:20to maintain support for development
28:22cooperation
28:24now how do you then reconcile that
28:26factor
28:28with
28:29the critical need of allowing recipient
28:31countries to be in charge
28:34my
28:35idea is and it is in the bachelorette
28:37report why don't we use more of our aid
28:40to fund social protection programs then
28:44your aid directly helps to lift people
28:47out of poverty families out of poverty
28:50and by funding social protection for the
28:53poor and vulnerable
28:55you can both adhere
28:57to the respect ownership of the
29:00developing country but ensure your tax
29:02payers your parliament yes our tax
29:05heroes help lift people out of poverty
29:08now
29:09then why do i i'm summarizing vienna a
29:13bit longer
29:14why am i spending so much time about
29:16what austria should be doing
29:19um your government should be doing i'm
29:22sure some of you are involved in
29:23non-governmental efforts
29:25and these contribute to the millennium
29:27development goals and i think that each
29:29individual life improved by these
29:31efforts
29:32is worth celebrating
29:34but however much multiplied
29:37these efforts will never ever add up
29:40to compensate for the missing billion
29:44every year yes in the case of austria
29:46and missing billions of dollars every
29:48year
29:49that your own government promised and is
29:52not delivering
29:55and for the waste of millions of age
29:57funds
29:58because you're not implementing the aid
30:00effectiveness agreements
30:02it is only ultimately
30:05comprehensive government action that can
30:08make
30:09achieve the development goals
30:12and the most important contribution that
30:14citizens can make
30:16is to hold their own government into
30:18account
30:20so
30:20in many onlines i say when there are
30:22ngos around
30:24the issue basically is and i'm saying
30:26this very performatively it's not about
30:28raising funds it's about raising voices
30:33and why it's kind of interesting that in
30:34germanic languages including my own
30:37the the word for voices and votes is the
30:40same
30:42and it is actually what it's exactly
30:44about
30:45because the real problem is that
30:47government leaders step into their plays
30:50fly to international meetings make
30:53beautiful speeches and promises and then
30:55take the plane back home to business as
30:57usual
30:58and they get away with it as long as
31:01their citizens let them get away with it
31:04and living up to these promises thus
31:06requires public awareness citizens
31:09advocacy suggesting to political leaders
31:12that they will win votes not lose them
31:15if they support the right things if they
31:18help achieve the management development
31:20goals
31:21so raising voices
31:23telling your politicians that you want
31:25all shia to keep its promise to achieve
31:280.7 by 2015
31:31and that you want to see a credible time
31:33path budgetary leading to that from now
31:35on
31:36tell your politicians that you want your
31:38taxpayers money to be spent effectively
31:41for poverty
31:43reduction
31:44and that you want them to implement
31:46these commitments on aid effectiveness
31:48and that you want development data
31:50delivered in a fashion that enables poor
31:53countries to achieve these blame goals
31:55and that you want that age to go to the
31:58poor countries that actually need it
32:01and that you want that aid to be used
32:04not
32:04for financing austrian experts
32:07i mean you got the lowest unemployment
32:09the whole europe why would you need
32:12to use your meager aid budget to create
32:15jobs at home
32:16and you also should tell them to act now
32:19because we only have two and a half
32:20years left
32:22in the home stretch of the median
32:23development goals and we have to act i
32:26mean poor
32:27children poor women cannot wait thank
32:30you

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