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The IMF, the World Bank, and the cartel of good intentions in the world has taken over our rights as citizens, and therefore what our governments are doing, because they depend on aid, is to listen to international creditors rather than their own citizens.
Because they don't need to talk to their own citizens.
Agriculture, which employs 18 percent of our poverty-stricken citizens, takes only 18 billion.
But if we're really to make democracy vigorous again, if we're ready to revivify it, we need to get involved in a new project of the citizens and the politicians.
It's a question of what the citizens do.
And third, the engagement in developing countries was with a narrow set of government elites with little interaction with the citizens, who are the ultimate beneficiaries of development assistance.
Governments today are opening up just as citizens are demanding voice and accountability.
Are governments delivering services to the citizens?
Tools like this help turn a shelf full of inscrutable documents into a publicly understandable visual, and what's exciting is that with this openness, there are today new opportunities for citizens to give feedback and engage with government.
And what is very exciting is that citizens were then able to give feedback as to which health or water points were not working, aggregated in the red bubbles that you see, which together provides a graphic visual of the collective voices of the poor.
He fought till the end, increasingly passionate that to combat corruption and poverty, not only did government officials need to be honest, but citizens needed to join together to make their voices heard.
We need to radically open up development so knowledge flows in multiple directions, inspiring practitioners, so aid becomes transparent, accountable and effective, so governments open up and citizens are engaged and empowered with reformers in government.
It seems easier to imagine that than, say, citizens rising up and taking down a government that is in control of everything.
So we are still that magnificent country, but we are fueled by young people coming up from every land in the world, and it is our obligation as contributing citizens to this wonderful country of ours to make sure that no child gets left behind.
I have got to focus on whatever economic opportunity I can get to my citizens.
When I told the World Bank directors that I wanted them to finance a project to build a model reception hall for citizens precisely in order to fight endemic daily corruption, they did not understand me.
We built the bright new reception hall that made people, Tirana citizens, think they had traveled abroad when they entered to make their requests.
Those are the critical questions, and what we have learned from PISA is that, in high-performing education systems, the leaders have convinced their citizens to make choices that value education, their future, more than consumption today.
And in the general election, it's the citizens who get to vote, but in the Lester election, it's the Lesters who get to vote.
In the general election, it's the citizens who get to vote, if you're over 18, in some states if you have an ID.
And not works for the left or the right, but works for the left and the right, the citizens of the left and right, because there is no sensible reform possible until we end this corruption.
It's solvable by being citizens, by being citizens, by being TEDizens.
However, the moral and political choice is still up to us, as citizens and as voters.
We reached a tipping point this year where living, acting, designing, investing and manufacturing green came to be understood by a critical mass of citizens, entrepreneurs and officials as the most patriotic, capitalistic, geo-political and competitive thing they could do.
What would it mean for democratic societies to offer their citizens a right to build?
And in a way it should be kind of obvious, right, that in the 21st century, maybe cities can be developed by citizens.
As I think Robert Neuwirth said, there isn't a bank or a corporation or a government or an NGO who's going to be able to do it if we treat citizens only as consumers.
And still a third group got a message about being good citizens, preventing blackouts.
You see, then Greece was under control of a very powerful establishment which was strangling the country, and my father was heading a promising movement to reimagine Greece, to imagine a Greece where freedom reigned and where, maybe, the people, the citizens, could actually rule their own country.
That is, abandoning our collective power to imagine our potential, falling victims to our fears, our stereotypes, our dogmas, taking our citizens out of the process rather than building the process around our citizens.
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