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" Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosperity is widely shared. Access to financial services plays a critical role in lifting people out of poverty, in empowering women, and in helping governments deliver services to their people. "

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Confidence

Woman

Power

" Conflicting legislation and regulations, overlapping mandates, unwillingness to enforce land use, elite capture, entrenched attitudes, and lack of incentives to influence behavior are rife in many resource-rich countries. "

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Capture

Influence

Lack

" If managed well, urbanization can create enormous opportunities: allowing innovation and new ideas to emerge, saving energy, land and natural resources, managing climate and the risk of disasters. "

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Ideas

Energy

Innovation

" Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Because

Shock

Same

" Over time, Europeans have come to rely on governments to protect them from the rougher facets of private enterprise and to look after them in old age. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Age

Protect

Time

" Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Changes

Legacy

Now

" If women had better access to the financial system - even so much as a basic deposit account at a bank - it would be a major step in the direction of greater wealth and greater economic empowerment. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Step

Financial

Bank

" Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Agriculture

Drive

Holding

" When millions of dollars and thousands of humanitarian workers poured into Indonesia, we quickly faced the challenge of coordinating our own bureaucracy with the multitudes of approaches and priorities the donor community wanted to pursue. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Priorities

Challenge

Community

" Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Good

Help

Problem

" Financial inclusion helps lift people out of poverty and can help speed economic development. It can draw more women into the mainstream of economic activity, harnessing their contributions to society. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

People

Help

Financial

" China's urbanization supported the country's impressive growth and rapid economic transformation. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Country

China

Transformation

" Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Trust

Job

Insecurity

" Women are often paid far less than men, while they also perform most of the world's unpaid care work. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Care

Far

Men

" People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Capitalism

Decisions

Process

" Being able to save, make non-cash payments, send or receive remittances, get credit, or get insurance can be instrumental in raising living standards and helping businesses prosper. It helps people to invest more in education or health care. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Living

People

Education

" There's broad recognition that you really have to put the money where people are going to self-manage. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

People

Recognition

Money

" We won't be able to stop disasters from happening. On the contrary, climate change may increase the frequency and severity of floods, droughts and storms. But we are better equipped today to prepare for them and reduce their impact. "

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Impact

Better

Change

" The problem of the food price is structural. The growth of demand cannot be checked in that it is coming from middle income countries demanding more quality and more quantity of food. High demand is here to stay. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Price

Growth

Food

" When both women and men contribute to a country's economic life on an equal basis, they help building stronger societies and stronger economies. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Building

Equal

Help

" I think the implications for the rise of China are huge in terms of the political landscape, economic balance, de-velopment thinking, and the environment. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Political

Think

Thinking

" Between 1995 and 2009, Western Europe's entrepreneurs created jobs faster than the U.S. did, and European economies exported more than the BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Eastern Europe's productivity increased more rapidly than East Asia's. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Jobs

Russia

" Although many people in Aceh are still poor and vulnerable, the province resembles nothing like the place I saw the day after the tsunami hit. "

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Nothing

Place

People

" In the 1990s, I was among those Indonesians who demanded and celebrated the departure of our own autocrat, Suharto, and I joined the new government when he left. "

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Departure

New

Left

" We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Poverty

Ending

Equality

" I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Man

Team

Woman

" While prosperity and longevity arrive together, they cannot be treated the same. With greater wealth, people in Asia may not have to work as many hours as they do now. But living longer means they will have to work more years, not fewer. "

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Work

Wealth

Together

" I am still an Indonesian citizen. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Citizen

I Am

" It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don't get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Political

Quick

Goes

" Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge. "

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Edge

Always

Fickle