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we will find out in the next half an hour. her majesty, queen maxima, i'll send madeline stocks, houses, era. i your majesty, queen maxima, madeline. thank you for talking to al serra, i've witnessed you for the last 4 or 5 days in action as a advocate to promote financial inclusion and to eradicate poverty. but i also know you as a popular, glamorous queen of the netherlands, who is queen, maximize what role food to best the poverty fighter or the glamorous queen sort of gather i think, you know, i do everything that i try to do with a lot of with with my also, you know, since i was 14 years old, i actually went to study economics microeconomics because i realized in my country above that things were doing work for really normal people. and since then, i've had this passion, which maybe you colleague lima, maybe i corner of maybe where i'm born from this latin american way of being, but also in a very dutch diligent way. so i think i've actually learned from a lot of pieces to actually make this work and, and i don't do this alone. i do it with a lot of partners and their gates foundation for the better than cash alliance. see, i have c and many other partners. i do help me to achieve their for me helping people out of poverty that nothing that gives me a bigger kick and nothing that can give me more energy. and you slip easily back from one world of glamour and wealth to the other world, which is really poor. yeah, for i don't see my normal days is glamour. wealth is also a lot of hard work and my life might be seemed like a life green. but i have a very normal day, my kids go to the bicycle to school and they all have a budget and they have to attend the cells to and, and we will work very hard to, i don't see myself, you know? and i think in any case, i have to use my position to improve the lives of others. and i think that's what i've been trying to do. we will get back to that later. but i want to go back to what you said. your child with growing up in argentina, you said you were 14, right. when you decided to become an economist and it was a very, very difficult time and tina, very bad crisis adapt crisis. the banks were going bankrupt. lots of poverty. can you remember the 1st images in your life of poverty? what was your 1st experience? i think my biggest shock one is when i saw really what inflation did to people with less means and they had no way to protect themselves against inflation . wells, people could actually have access better, better means of protection they could actual by dollars by then or, or put in a very good sort of no saving account that actually would also controversy inflation and to see people holding onto the specials. and they had no means of actually fighting this inflation and losing, by the end of the month, half of their income in a heck of prices that really shocked me and said, my god, we have to do things differently. is there an image that still is in your you're now just seeing people are seeing after very big sort of invasion shop. you could actually see more people beggars on the street more people in the street really not being able to find a home. and i see that every time in every country go after some, very, the crisis, you see the impoverishment, we don't have to have the numbers to see it. you see it in the street. so you decided people need bank accounts, they need financial inclusion. that's what you and like again, you know, financially and just as a means to an end is not in itself because people do not become better because they haven't a bank account. but when they do have a bank account, when they have a means to actually save when they have, when they start saving, they could actually become sort of more credit worthy. and then they actually do get a credit to actually invest in their business. and then one of the biggest issues as we know that people once a fight very hard to get her poverty, then remember the family get sick or they have an accident or the rain doesn't come and they fall back into poverty. so insurance is extremely important. these cases and then less, don't mis regard the importance of payments because how many women actually sort of get a payment and they have to take us to actually go and make the deposit in the bank, or actually get the payment from the state. and it sometimes the bus fare his actually have or the payment they get from the state on there 2 days in the bus and leaving their businesses and the families behind. so being able that she get that cash transfer the state gives to you in your home or your mobile phone is just priceless. it's also secure. it also gives them security. you said before you use this function as, as, as said, the queen of the netherlands to help with this job. right. where exactly does a pap well, the fact in the beginning it did help because of course as having this position it does brings people together. but afterwards, you have to learn the material, we say and, and really good internet in all the details because, you know, if the devil is in the details of these issues, every talk about sort of, you know, how do we do that? more women have more access to mobile banking for example. well, 1st of all, they have to access to a phone. and then i need to know the cost structure for women. how is it really costly? is a mccarthy here synagogue, that it is and be now, or it is in kenya to actually literally own a phone, but pay the, you know, the bundle for. and then i have to sort of be able to discuss with the minister to say, you know, listen, your presence very high because of this and these are not, and this is what you be doing. so, you know, depending on so many infrastructural issues that i need to know to the detail or why these issues on the, the way they are to help them better. but the doors of ministers and presidents open more easily because your queen. yeah, yeah. but at the same time, i've been doing this for around 15 years. so i have a track record, i hope not only myself, but also with all our partners in you know, that this issue has been working. of course in the very beginning when i had to knock the doors and they had to sit down and listen to me, you know, why should i be listening to a queen talking to me about financial inclusion. but now i know i'm known. and together with my partner said, we don't, we've actually brought success more than 1400000 people had had more access to financial services in the last 9 years. so there is a success story to be told. and i think that also mobilize is people still like 40 percent has not right, not. but we're going to have at the end of this month or the new figures. and i'm very confident. we've also made a big jump the loss of years. but are you disappointed that it's not going as fast as you would like to, because it's still nearly half the population living from cash. oh wow. you know, they come from such a low base. and certain countries, you know, are now nearly completely financial included. and i couldn't speak to the country once. right. so i, we started with 25 countries. mostly $25.00 countries are by now like 80 percent included. so i need to go to the next level of countries. so i guess it was a question of, you know, try and being able to give the attention to all the countries it actually needed to prioritize. we've seen you going into a lot of meetings with high ranking officials in the ivory coast and here and 10 ago you also met the president monkey sol. how are you ensuring that when the, the phone to opportunities they want to have also with you, when the red carpets are rolled up and you go home that they actually implement what they, what you have been asking for? well, a good example now is just with the ministry of finance. minister finance actually has known this national strategy of financial inclusion. and i said to them this, and i'm very nice to actually have a whole report with a strategy but but much more important. it is to implement it and coordinate among different ministries and also private sector players. and with a central bank that is regional. so what we do is actually we have one of my partners that actually i was on the ground, they're going to be, we actually said we're going to help you with this on this and that with very timely bound, deadlines. and also they asked me every 6 months to have a conference call with them. so we do that, you know, we as room or whatever. and so we control it and we also give by then i also have an analysis. what has been done or not done? second, keep insisting it does work very well. i've done it with several countries that works very well to actually keep the rhythm and the pace of transformation. of course, watch the whole journey, the trip that you made last week. and what i also noticed that the media reports about your trip for a lot of percentages, maybe 80 percent, about what you're wearing to designer, the clothes you're wearing. does that frustrate, you know, there's press freedom so i guess i can't say much about it, but of course i would like it to be much more content than it is or what i'm wearing it. that is a case, but i also see very good media. you know, covering what i'm doing and what i'm wearing, so i prefer to focus on that. the african countries also are a bit disappointed with, for example, western countries and western 8. how sure are you that they actually really want to listen to a western queen? well, i don't, i cannot say about the disappointment. i think that you know, that's something that is beyond my capacity to actually make an analysis of it. and i think and then it goes, goes back to the whole question you said before, they're not only talking to a queen, they're speaking to a special advocate for the 2nd edition of united nations. and that means they're also representing me. so this 193 member states that actually united the united nations, i'm also representing them. so and also because i've done this for so long, you know, so many years somewhere there says credibility that, that you know, that gives them the reason to take me seriously and to really go into technical issues. you're also really strongly coming out for women. empowerment i read somewhere in your university years. you were kind of a bit of a rebel. you stood up in a theology class against a priest was sad that women should serve men. and then you ask, why am i actually studying them? and you were actually removed from class. what, what does that say about you? i think it's pretty clear. don't you think one on many levels? i think it is of utmost importance to actually support women develop themselves and it is good for the women themselves and to be independent. but it's also good for society as a whole. we know that we invest in a woman, we invest no hold families and the kids are going to go to school. i mean, we weren't quite well. and this lady said to me, you know what, you started having, whose whole programming, where she has saving as sort of a level of insurance to actually sort of put in, in their, in their little companies. i'm to them said, you know, my children are going to university, she didn't even finish has schooled herself. so, you know, this is the effect on investing in women. and i have to say also, i think women extremely capable of doing so many good things. and i, we have to just give them the opportunity. and in this case, that's why we're now trying with the african union to have this very big program of digital and financial inclusion for women. because women are less likely, toner phone, are less likely to have a huge gap. it is closing very little by little and i don't do not want to generalize because for example, synagogue this gap is shrinking and go to work. it was widening. but we need to work a lot more in including the women in the system. if they don't have a phone, they will not be included in the economic system. at least not fully. and these type of issues we need to fight for because it's like investment is that a smart investment? that would actually have such a big return? because when we do that, i mean, they will be able to do so much more. and also part of the 50 percent of the agriculture as a women. if we need an agricultural revolution in africa, we need the women. but where did that come from in that university? where did i come from? from you? what role model that you? half i i think my father was amazing supporting me and he had 7 daughter, so i think he, he had to invest in daughters. otherwise he knew what it would actually come. that's a joke, but he was so good at giving us a lot of support and you know, letting us know that women can be as good as men. and he was very supportive and he would never know whatever we had in our minds. he always said to us, speak up and, and tell us what you think. so. yeah, he thought he really was very much about equal opportunities. well, your father was a minister of agricultural right in the continued government for fidel. our we came back dental, is that an example for you that the agricultural, the farming interests you have? do you mean is that's a reason why i'm also interested in farming it's, it's, it's a double thing. i think on the one hand, yes, i do have an emotional attachment to farming because i grew up talking about farmers yield. so farming and different products. how to, you know, the importance of exporting the importance of subsistence farming, the importance of also the value chains that need to be supported. so that, that's what i heard on my life, right? so of course i do have an understanding or at least an emotional bond with it, but also to be honest with you, if we have to fight poverty, most of the poor people certainly here in africa live in the rural areas. and this is the subsistence farmers that actually are really trying to make ends meet in a very tough way and we need to really invest a lot more in farming. i mean, it, we're talking about sort of increasing livelihoods. we have a deficit of billions of dollars annually to invest in production, in all its ways from the very start to at least the their transformation of agriculture products. so we need to really focus how to engage with the family a lot better. and we have 550000000, small hola, families around the world that are not getting the credit nor the services they need to really make that change. and we thoroughly miss it. you are in university hoping, of course that women would be empowered in your lifetime in a satisfying way. if you look at the situation right now, for example, in analysis, we still haven't had a female prime minister. and also looking at the situation here in africa with the agenda gap and women still being more in poverty than, than man. if you look at the compared to situation, what went wrong? well, i don't, i don't think one should actually say what went wrong. i think even the incentives and i was just being told that, you know, about 20 years ago, women could not even inherit your own anything. not even allowed to have a bank account and they know connection harrington. and oh, no, bank account and there are many women ministers here. it's in regard that with and think of off many years ago. so there are, there have been advances. absolutely. so it can be enough because i'm impatient. of course, it's never quick enough. we always was born, but we can also deny that there has been advances. but we of course we need to have a lot more. absolutely. well, many girls. our generation grew up reading fairytale books about if you marry a prince, you live happily ever after you are a living example. and of course you're a modern queen with modern challenges. as you have told us, what would you tell girls who are watching this interview about this fairy tale? does it exist? i don't think this fairy tale exists. i think it's more hard work and anything else that i've actually done, and i tell you was a bunker, new york working 16 hours a day. so. and it's a lot of responsibility. and also i think if you have this position, there's a responsibility for us to make a change. someone and i take it very seriously and you know, this is one part of what i do. also in the netherlands. i've actually done issues of music education also access for if they need to credit which didn't exist before and try to improve the situation of us in the netherlands. i've also just launched a foundation, mental health for youth. and i guess i do not stop, that's a new, that's what i am. but at the same time, i think that one is in this position to make a change for the people that you know surround us. well, the monarchy in the netherlands has also been criticized on, on the pressure recently in your role as the un special africa. do you want to reshape the role of, of a queen for example, to show that i do not have that potential. i don't have that potential, i think that every person does it the way they come and according to their own abilities and according to their own tenants. i hope that i've actually try to develop some talent for myself, that i can actually make a difference in certain aspects. but i do not think that one size will fit and agree with what is the ideal queen according to an ideal green. and every country has a different system and, and as time changes, my daughter will actually do it in a different way than i have done it. so i don't think, i think the only example one can actually give is to really go for what you love. and what you really makes you happy, and that gives you energy because by doing that you will actually make a difference. you in the beginning, we asked about the 2 different roles that you have and they're from different kinds of worlds. i'm just wondering what experience do you have as a special advocate that really has touched you the most, maybe on this trip or maybe in previous trips? no one has touched me. the most is to see the effect that this work has actually had on people. and in their lives i've actually done repeat visit to countries and couple of times actually visit the same person. i've done that in bangladesh and also in a couple of other places. and to see that this woman that had just one employee, i was barely making ends meet. and i go there for 5 years later. and that is just like 12 employees. and she's like, you know, the person in the whole village that is actually a help in the village elder. and she's a woman. and that's, that's really encourages me to do all the work that is needed. and i know that just so many more examples like that and you sometimes take them home with you that you take think about the stories and yeah, absolutely. well i am i do and i always have pictures and i have my elbows where the older or the clients have actually met. and so that is really very nice and i know what i follow all the projects that i've actually visited. i try to follow them and some practice didn't actually materialize or the were not that successful, but the great majority have been and i think that is really work is be the energy and to do this work. yeah. you're trained economist, you were working at at a bank before you met your husband. have you ever imagined if you would have not met the crown prince and have become a queen, how your career would have been? yeah, i don't think it would be it because the reason why i got into this is because i actually before i met my husband, i started helping some friends on micro finance and that was back in 1998. i forget the dates. and so it was because of that that i was, i actually asked by the way, because a couple of people in america, fine as well. that asked me to start developing my ideas on the un. so i was very enticed by it. so i would have imagined that i would like to continue with that. how difficult was it to, to, to combine it? because as we, we said it's a for more than full time job. you have in the netherlands, you do a lot of promoting music in school as you sat, mental health issues, and then this whole big job. well, as i said, i don't do it alone. i have a fantastic team in new york that actually helps me out. also somebody helps me in the netherlands and also very many partners that you know, when i leave this country, they will be following it up for me when i'm doing other things. so i'm that the same time, you know, when you are actually doing something you like, you find the time and you find the energy because it is what it will give you even more energy and inspire you to every time be able to person. and every time to try to focus a little bit more. so i think that would be the message that i could give to any person around. and you going to run the world, do what you're good at and do what you really, what really gives you a lot of energy because that in turn would develop itself and in successes. and i know to reward that answers my 1st question. yeah. are you a passionate poverty fighter or grandma squint, you sound very passionate about the green maxima of the netherlands. thank you for talking to al jazeera. i think if we're paying attention to my work and financial inclusion, it is so important. it kind of really thinking american people have finally spoken, america is isolate when america is on balance, the world becomes more dangerous. the world is looking at us with a mixture of sadness and with the election behind us. will the republican party dump truck we take on us politics and society? 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