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 you
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 telep
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 exporti
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 in
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
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
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
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, Fre
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
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 entrepreneur
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 Historica
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 p
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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