UN General Assembly
2012

sustainable approach. We included several other items of extreme importance on the agenda, including green growth — to which I will refer later — food security for our peoples and financial inclusion for the poorest. In that regard, approximately 3 billion adults in the world do not have access to financial services. That is a clear obstacle to justice, but also to the efficiency and growth of our economies. That is why we in Mexico have expanded people’s access to financial services. Today, banks offer simplified requirements for opening accounts. We are establishing a completely new bank that functions through the use of cell phones, which 80 per cent of the population own. We are offering, through bank intermediaries, financial services in the most remote places. Not only has my Government been introducing programmes to promote justice and fight poverty, but the majority of the support that we give to the poorest sectors of the population today is done through a financial inclusion effort. Our Opportunities Programme is an innovative financial transaction