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Today, I am calling for action in four key areas to make that a reality: 1. Accelerating our fight against poverty and inequality through targeted investments in the systems people need — food, education, health, water and sanitation, housing, and social protection. 2. Bringing a laser focus to job-creation and employment — including massive investments in training, skills development, economic diversification, closing the digital divide, and ensuring that women have equal access to jobs and opportunities. 3. Supercharging global efforts to finance development by unlocking more finance to support developing countries and expand opportunities for people, by tripling the lending power of multilateral development banks to make them bigger and bolder, by leveraging more private finance, by easing debt burdens with new instruments to reduce borrowing costs and risks, and by reforming the global financial architecture so it better represents today’s world and the needs of developing countries. 4. Our plan must include all people, leaving no one behind — including women, minorities, migrants and refugees, older persons, Indigenous Peoples, persons living with disabilities, and young people. Development is about building stronger societies that serve the many, not the few. Today, I called on leaders to continue delivering on the promise of the Doha Political Declaration they adopted here, and the justice, peace and prosperity that every person, everywhere, deserves.
