A decade of steady budgets bought Benin clean water for 80% of its people

Aristide Medenou, Benin's finance minister, told the UN's SDG Moment what a decade of steadily growing domestic revenue bought his country: drinking-water access up from 40% to 80% in five years, and a new industrial zone that created 25,000 jobs. A rare, concrete case of development promises turning into taps and paychecks.