Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley is “quietly confident” that her proposals to reform the international financial system to better serve crisis-affected lower-income countries will be adopted, and suggested to Devex that her agenda may have backing from one of the Group of Seven leading industrial nations.
The reforms, known as the Bridgetown Agenda after the capital of Barbados, are “resonating with a number of people,” Mottley told Devex Monday on the sidelines of the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
“It’s pleasing, but I think it resonates because what we’ve done is take the experiences of people, and put them in one place, and to say look, if this international financial system is going to work for us, we need reform, and these are the areas we see the reform,” Mottley said.
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William Worley@willrworley
Will Worley is the Climate Correspondent for Devex, covering the intersection of development and climate change. He previously worked as UK Correspondent, reporting on the FCDO and British aid policy during a time of seismic reforms. Will’s extensive reporting on the UK aid cuts saw him shortlisted for ‘Specialist Journalist of the Year’ in 2021 by the British Journalism Awards. He can be reached at william.worley@devex.com.
Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
