TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(10)

So you mentioned corruption in your talk, and you’re known, well-known as a strong anticorruption fighter. 你在你的演讲中提到了腐败,而你作为一个反腐败人士是非常知名的。 But that’s had consequences. People have fought back, and your mother was kidnapped. 但这对你是有很大影响的。那些人反击,你的母亲遭到绑架。 How have you been handling this? 你是如...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(5)

And this mobile money is also providing a platform for access to alternative energy. 这项移动支付技术也为获取替代能源提供了一个平台。 You know, people who can now pay for solar the same way they pay for cards for their telephone. 人们现在可以像支付电话费一样支付太阳能费用。 So this was a very good development, something that went right. 所以这是个非常好的发展...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(7)

So even though we’ve been growing, the structure of the economies has not changed very much. 即使我们一直在发展,经济的机构并没有什么改变。 We are still exporting commodities, and exporting commodities is what? It’s exporting jobs. 我们仍然出口商品,而出口商业等于什么?等于出口就业岗位。 Our manufacturing value-added is only 11 percent. 我们的制造...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(4)

Two, debt. In 1994, the debt-to-GDP ratio of African countries was 130 percent, and they didn’t have fiscal space. 第二件事,债务。在1994年,非洲国家债务对GDP的比例是130%,而且他们没有财政空间。 They couldn’t use their resources to invest in their development because they were paying debt. 他们无法用自己的资源去投资于自己的发展,因为他们都在偿还债务。 ...

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特朗普每周电视讲话:致敬并帮助非裔美国人发展(1)

My fellow Americans,As Black History Month 2017 comes to a close, 我的美国同胞们,在2017年黑人历史月结束之际, I am very grateful for the many wonderful opportunities to honor African American heroes, faith leaders, 我非常感激有很多很棒的机会,向非裔美国英雄们,领袖, entrepreneurs and the many others who changed the course of our Nation. 企业家和众多其他改变我们...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(2)

The second story has to do with something that I’m sure most of you have seen or will remember. 第二个故事,和那些我相信你们大多数人都见过或者记得相关事情。 Very often, countries in Africa suffer drought and floods, 非洲的国家常常遭受干旱和洪涝, and it’s getting more frequent because of climate change effects. 而随着气候变化的影响,它们正发生得越...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(9)

We have genius in our young people. I see it every day. 我们的年轻人拥有天赋。我每天都看得到。 It’s what makes me wake up in the morning and feel ready to go. 这就是每天早上叫醒我并且让我整装待发的东西。 We have to unleash the genius of our young people, 我们必须解开我们的年轻人身上天赋的枷锁, get out of their way, support them to create and innovat...

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特朗普每周电视讲话:致敬并帮助非裔美国人发展(2)

There’s a great quote by Muhammad Ali in the museum – “I shook up the world,” he said. 在博物馆里,写着穆罕默德.阿里一句伟大的话-他说,”我震撼了这个世界”。 And that is what he did. 这就是他做过的事情。 So did leaders like Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King, and so many others. 像索杰...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(8)

Now, where do we go from there? 现在,我们该走向何方? I believe that the way forward is to learn to manage success. 我相信前进的道路就是学会管理成功。 Very often, when people succeed or countries succeed, they forget what made them succeed. 当一个人成功了,或一个国家成功以后,他们往往会忘记是什么导致他们成功的。 Learning what you’re successful at, m...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(1)

The narrative of a rising Africa is being challenged. 这是一个正在崛起的非洲面临挑战的故事。 About 10 years ago, I spoke about an Africa, 大约在十年前,我做了一个关于非洲的演讲, an Africa of hope and opportunity, an Africa of entrepreneurs, 讲了一个充满希望和机会的非洲,遍布企业家的非洲, an Africa very different from the Africa that you normally hear abo...

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特朗普每周电视讲话:致敬并帮助非裔美国人发展(3)

I want every disadvantaged child in America to have a choice about where they go to school – so important. 我要每一个美国贫穷的孩子都有机会选择去哪上学–这非常重要。 I also want to honor and promote the achievements of Historically Black Colleges and Universities throughout our Nation. 我也要在我们国家鼓励和促进黑人学生占大多数的学院和大学发展。 They ...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(6)

The first was that even though we grew, we didn’t create enough jobs. 一,虽然我们进步,我们却没有创造足够的就业岗位。 We didn’t create jobs for our youth. 我们没有为我们的年轻人创造就业岗位。 Youth unemployment on the continent is about 15 percent, and underemployment is a serious problem. 在非洲,失业青年大概占15%,而就业不足是一个非常严重的问题...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(3)

But that narrative is being challenged now 然而,这个故事现在遇到了挑战 because the continent has not been doing well in the last two years. 因为非洲大陆在过去两年内一直表现不佳。 It had been growing at five percent per annum for the last one and a half decades, 虽然在过去的十五年里,它都是以每年5%的速度在增长, but this year’s forecast was three per...

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TED演讲:如何让世界到2030年时变得更好(1)

Do you think the world is going to be a better place next year? In the next decade? 你们觉得明年这个世界会变的更好吗?未来十年呢? Can we end hunger, achieve gender equality, halt climate change, all in the next 15 years? 我们能不能解决饥饿问题,实现性别平等,停止气候变化,让所有这些都在未来15年内实现? Well, according to the governments of the world, yes we can...

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TED演讲:如何让世界到2030年时变得更好(8)

How much? Enough to get us to the Global Goals? 我们要取得多少进步来到达全球目标呢? Well, let’s look at some numbers. 咱们来看看这些数字。 What we know already: the world today is scoring 61 on social progress, and the place we want to get to is 75. 我们已经知道:当今世界的平均社会进步值是61分,我们想要达到的目标是75分。 If we rely on economic growt...

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TED演讲:如何让世界到2030年时变得更好(4)

The Social Progress Index sums all this together using 52 indicators to create an aggregate score on a scale of 0 to 100. “社会进步指数”用52个指标把这些都集中到了一起,算出了一个百分制的总分。 And what we find is that there’s a wide diversity of performance in the world today. 然后我们发现了今天的世界上的国家有各种各样的成绩。 The highest performing countr...

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TED演讲:如何让世界到2030年时变得更好(3)

But that ain’t easy, because the Global Goals aren’t just ambitious, they’re also pretty complicated. 这并不容易,因为这些全球目标不仅仅很宏大,它们同样也很复杂。 Over 17 goals, there are then 169 targets and literally hundreds of indicators. 17个大目标下有169个小目标,并且不夸张地说,还有好几百个指标。 Also, while some of the goals are pretty ...

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TED演讲:如何让世界到2030年时变得更好(5)

Let me show you on this chart. 我来给你们看下这张图。 So here on the vertical axis, I’ve put social progress, the stuff the Global Goals are trying to achieve. 我把社会进步放在这张图的纵轴上,这就是全球目标要努力实现的东西。 Higher is better. And then on the horizontal axis, is GDP per capita. 越高越好。在横轴上的是人均国内生产总值。 Further to the r...

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TED演讲:如何让世界到2030年时变得更好(6)

Now this seems a bit strange. Economic growth seems to have really helped in the fight against poverty, 这看起来就有点奇怪了。经济的增长看起来对解决贫穷问题帮助很大, but it doesn’t seem to be having much impact on trying to get to the Global Goals. 但它似乎并不能对我们达到全球目标有多大的帮助。 So what’s going on? Well, I think there are two things....

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TED演讲:如何让世界到2030年时变得更好(7)

What that tells us, quite simply, is that GDP is not destiny. 这也就很明确地告诉了我们,国内生产总值不是决定性的因素。 We have countries that are underperforming on social progress, relative to their wealth. 世界上有一些比较富有,然而社会进步得分比较低的国家。 Russia has lots of natural resource wealth, but lots of social problems. 俄罗斯有很多自然资源财富,...

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