innovative financing

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department- New York) In Her remarks at the Innovative financing MDG side-meeting, at the United Nations head quarters in New York, Queen Rania stressed the importance of education and women empowerment as essentials for achieving all eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The meeting featured panels on the success of innovative financing in health, the financial transaction tax and new sectors for innovative financing,

The Queen is in New York as part of a working trip with His Majesty King Abdullah II.

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Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen…

Thank you for inviting me to this important meeting to help us rethink the current aid architecture.

This week, global leaders will evaluate our progress towards meeting the MDGs. But those of us here know that in 2010, our record of patchy progress means it’s already too late to achieve all eight.