# Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation minister, Maropene Ramokgopa, has called for global collaboration to improve public services and fund development. Speaking at the G20 Development Working Group Ministerial Meeting in Mpumalanga, she stressed solidarity, financial justice, and people-centred growth. Ramokgopa warned that only 52.4-percent of the global population has social protection and highlighted Africa’s 1.5-trillion-rand annual loss to illicit financial flows. She said development must focus on people, not just policies:
Minister Ramokgopa urges social protection as an investment in human capital at G20 meeting [SOUND]
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