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world's biggest don't of foreign aid, but to american people know where the tax money is go. it's also funding helped to boost global stability and faced with an unprecedented climate crisis, zambia hopes charcoal production permits the many assembly and say the move will apply for them if the only source of energy india is the fastest growing major economy in the world. but the benefits of india is growth, all trickling down to poor people. the richest one percent of the population owns 40 percent of the countries wealth. the inequality gap is wiping sharply on deployment to stop by and remote these decades in power. that's according to the world in a policy lab, and it's now flash points in the countries national elections. hot topics include inheritance, tax and wealth redistribution. but the ruling brought to the out john auto policy will be j. p and the opposition congress policy are presenting themselves as champions of the common man. just

a reminder that the indian government hasn't gone to the visas to out to 0 as john list. so we're covering the election from outside the country over consumption rates. ripples in e as in asia is which is man location. bonnie sped no expense that his youngest son's pre wedding bash. in march, i just reported the cost of a $150000000.00. it made international news to the industrialist, but the network of nearly a $112000000000.00 is not the countries. so we've been in a india seen a rise in billing as in recent years with 94 added this year. it's become an electronic issue in the own gluten free elections. the prime minister in range of moody is seeking a search to do your position has accused the governing bgp of say, bring the bridge to come. recess is selected. it will conduct a national cost census to address growing in the quantities between income and

valves on there. the b g p has waved off the debts of $22.00 businessmen, but we will be transforming the lives of millions of people and their families. from mr. movie says the congress plans to redistribute the countries belts are better than what it is that a god of they said, most lives have the 1st right over the nations. well, this means they will collect people's wells and distributes it to whom to those who have more children, to the info try to is. india is both and the quality has widen. on the move these tenure, the richest one percent of the population on 40 percent of the countries both according to data from folds. industrial is growth and madonna's network routes from nearly $7000000000.20, to nearly 82000000000 this year. nearly a 1000000000 people are eligible to vote in india as general elections that conclude on june. first, for many, rising unemployment and inflation is

a major concern. we're not always a good idea. they keep saying they'll eradicate poverty. but it seems they bought eradicate the paul j. well, they may, i bid the issues are rising prices and unemployment. there is no work. children are roaming around aimless and jobless in india is among the fastest growing economies in the world. but many tuned up to vote see this from being to find a stable income of consumption grief on to see the for counting the cost. another factor believes to be holding equality in india back is the cost system of hierarchy based on one's bus. the concept divides induced by the family's place in society, discrimination against people from certain cost is officially illegal in india. but active is say that it's still because there are laws in place to ensure spots in jobs and universities for so called shed your cost citizens rights group, say they don't go far enough. one of the things holding fact these efforts is i'm

gonna create a data on how many people belong to which cost opposition politicians are pushing for a more complete census. but a faced resistance from the beach ape government of joining us not from new delhi in india is out on coma and economist, an author of the book d monitors monetize ation. and the black economy good to have you with a set so. so why have the benefits of india's rapid economic growth been so unevenly distributed? to choose to be not g bush and the more any closer than most other economy. so it depends on the system. what country part of your system via phone or the system in which i would lodge on all night sick job which employed in 94 percent of the workforce is done and you made it to. and then you have the income, you have to be saving. so the more income you have, the more savings you have, and therefore what's happening is the incomes are concentrated in the hands of cheap percent of the population. just saving

a lot. so the growth that developed is increasing. but down to the 94 percent of the $200000000.00 people who used to it on a 14 set up by the government for these people and 90 percent reported earnings just been $120.00 per month. so you can imagine begun to save anything, but it's a bit all steve and not so desinik or des, a structural problem, and they can do the economy, read the unorganized sector ons. they do the all nice sector and especially those businesses beyond much more. so what do you make of the pay that's raging at the moment about wealth re distribution? is that a good idea or a bad idea could put it even be achieved? you know, back if you need quarterly depends on the incoming warranty. if you reduce the incoming warranty by creating more employment as your, as a bar. so just lots of wonderful people are under employed unemployed. therefore they have no income. if you're generate more employment, people have more income and then that the quantity of the decline. so you're going

to actually take money from somebody and then view dispute what, what you're doing is you levy maybe on both drugs or reducing the kind and you called you. and then you have an inheritance tax or across generations. so that a beavens don't boss on the road to dogs, siblings, and therefore you know that he won't be a crunch. anderson declines. so in other words, you know, these have been so history to the international level. there's something called the hicks, i'm as declaration of taxation receive if you have road, then you are on equal as compared to somebody else. and i just had just an income to read. the declaration comes from that. i'm from the able to do to be argument of income taxation. but i can imagine particularly the issue of inheritance tax being quite a politically contentious issue. that's the way we present it, but actually only the top cheapest and have a balance which could be taxed or in her desk which could be taxed is not the give it to 97 percent. but the way it's presented is just getting the last minute

actually be taxed. so it's suggested that the government would be like a rubbing. but that's paul from the reality globally. if you look at border and will say, and biggest other rich people in america, they've been seeing that capitalism can also buy under the reach, pay more taxes. and she said that his secretary ones maybe don't section or what do you ours, be the hard to actually judge of biden, also present bite and also said the same thing. so in other words, the rich have to pay more taxes if kept it, and it was just the like, because the court did use are sorted of the lot, the keys to political and social problems in the economy. and therefore, you are required to reduce any car deep and therefore both dark solution that united and stacks are something that can be used to reduce the warranty across generations also. so from what you'll say, despite the arguments by many who say that the wealth redistribution would hinder india's economic growth, it would, it would actually do the opposite. the right side. actually, you know, this,

the party in rows is not as if it suddenly com is being great. what it means is that the systems are really against the poor people. is that more employment it behind more robust here just do are the comes their best with also brought into unique warranty. would not be so much. that's why the country has been at any point in much less seniors. 137 frank and book outstanding go because of tard, largest number of billing is so even germany and japan, which have a but kept income 20 times. oh, they have to be in the us. what it means is that almost systems have a new quote. the way the technology dismissal people, the we the investment factors or 6 percent of the population, the old and i said to ignore 50 percent of the investment for the 92 percent. you have wanted 20 percent of the investment and put those in agriculture. 46 percent of the work for you only 5 percent investment. so the more investment you have, what type of duct, the more of the income, the less the investment but kept understands the income. so we have the kind of

these being balances in the economy. read the government's policy to be able to organize sector against the an organized tech job. so that's how to change just briefly. so what do you make of the private associations that the, the congress is arguing when it talks about redistribution wells for taking money from hindus and giving it to muslims? well, that's the election argument of been actually prime minister and one who started off the the non comment on the page. and then he was saying that he said, different you, you've got and these are various things. you'll have more than $400.00 seats and bottom man, etc. now he's finding that that's not what that what he's going on a comment on the card read. he's, you know, saying that it was dreams of being saved by the congress, which is not the case. actually the most grims i, one of the most deprived segments in the, in the system there was that important 2006 respected the are the most deprived is

not in the context and do you need something. so what sort of parameters was quoting based on that diagnostics 7 beat seem to prime minister said the student that would be supported. but when you support the plot, it doesn't mean you support a community and there are and then also what, what like from, for instance, the dollars, the other untouchables and people like that. so what the communist manifesto saying is that we have support for them is not just muslims, are no one called me to deal with the other traditional election strategy. the de brian list is adopted even though just to dig back. you said i would not use the common card, but you had been using the common card from time to time. really good to talk to somebody. thank some date for being with us on tomorrow. thank you and thank you. american military hardware continues to kill palestinians, the us as the israel, and they have violated humanitarian law using american weapons. and it's war on concept. pressure is growing on president joe binding to end up ministry support is one of the biggest recipients of americans for an age funded mainly by tax payers

dollars. many americans without questioning whether washington spends too much money to support its allies. opponents say that funding could be better spent at home developing us infrastructure and defending borders. in 2022 total us foreign aid topped $70000000000.00 for the 1st time in 70 years. fuel plants, military support, israel of ukraine. it's on track to smash through that record in 2024. in april congress approved the $95000000000.00 spending bill. that includes $61000000000.00 for ukraine and $26000000000.00 for is where the weapons is. what us few minutes in a, in a to palestinians tools are increasing for the us to use it's leverage with israel to force it to hold its war on concept for us. president joe biden has been pushing for more assistance to praying for months and hailed the passage of the bill as a winning for american allies. it's going to make a man coach schafer,

this going to make the world safer, and it continues america's leadership in the world. and everyone knows, gives vital support to america's partners. and so they can defend themselves against the rest of their sovereignty and the lives and freedom of their citizens. and as an investment, our own security. because when our allies are stronger and i want to make this for and again and again, when our allies are stronger, we are stronger, but just weak slice of life and made his strongest condemnation. yes, of his rails was saying that the us would not supply offensive weapons to israel if it invited rough up when moving a 1000000 palestinians have been sheltering. civilians have been killed in gaza as a consequence on those farms and other ways in which they go after populations. i made it clear that if i go into rough or i haven't gone on roughly yet, going a rougher i'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with profits. however,

the us to set to send is where the new weapons package with more than a $1000000000.00, if it's approved by congress. republicans have criticized by them for conditioning aid israel. and they've also expressed all positions the continued support for ukraine republican house pickup mike johnson, overcame pushed back from his own policy and held the vote, released billions in ministry and tremendous area and support. now remember that 80 percent of the ukraine funding will go to the replenishment of american weapons in stocks and our facilities in our operations. it also includes stuff, measures, and sections on iran, in russia and china, which most of the american people understand is a necessity in a very important thing. i've said it very simply, i'll say it once again. it's an old military adage, but we would rather send bullets to the conflict overseas then our own voice, our troops. the yearly expenditure only amounts to one percent of the total federal

budget. although some survey showed that american voters think that a close of the tax dollars go overseas, we spoke to some americans to get the views on foreign aid. i know, like i think most americans are aware that like, like 70 to 80 percent of our taxpaying is going towards military funding. i mean, specifically like spending it on like china sides. i think it's important. you know me, us is powerful country. we have a lot of resources, i think now we should help other countries and they need it. you know, i think it's something like we spend less than one percent of our annual budget and for it age, something roughly like that. i'm not sure of 4 days of effective this or if we should be spending more, we should be doing it in another way. i think it creates a lot of dependencies that aren't healthy for other countries in terms of a, the subsidies that we give. but i think overall we should be giving more to a crisis situations like gaza. i mean, i would probably estimate we use,

i know we sub contractor for an a lot. so it's not to say the united states government directly supplying it. but i know that a lot of it came, went to afghanistan and iraq during those years. now, i don't think we are not the leading contributor for an aide to african countries anymore. now that's china, but they're doing more. oh, well lady, what the war is going on. yeah, this is, i've been hearing reports of billions of chosen dollars going to or that's the, you know, hopefully this work and so on. and we get back to normal and provide back to our country. now, over the last 10 years, the u. s. has provided nearly a trillion dollars in foreign assistance, including humanitarian ministry at economic aid figure is a cost change from year to year with disasters or conflicts boosting funds to different places. but since the end of world war 2, the majority of aid has shifted from rebuilding europe to maintaining influence, managing conflicts and responding to humanitarian crises in the middle east and

africa. in 2023, the top 5 recipients of usaa or ukraine, israel, ethiopia, jordan, and egypt that followed by afghanistan, somalia, yemen, congo, and pots of syria that are not under the control of damascus. the us increased support that off the february 2023 of quakes hit the country's northwest. joining us not from sidney is brendan o'connor. he's a professor of us politics and us foreign relations at the university of sydney go to have you. but it's brendan. so how much of the us budget actually goes to farm aid and how does that compare to how much other countries spend? well, the us is the largest economy in the world, gives about 9 and a half $1000000000.00 and foreign id. yeah, this is well below the wrong promise target of. ready about one percent of gd paid to foreign i united states because about a 0.23 percent of its gd pay,

the strongest performers. ready that regard the. ready the scan. ready in countries . ready white sweden's givings closer to the one percent of to the pay target of japan to slip down considerably in recent years and it's far night as well. so there's, you know, there's a many needs out there in terms of famine, in terms of economic deprivation. ready around the world, but we don't usually count military 8 entirely in foreign 8. in recent times, united states has given $41000000000.00 since february 2022 and. ready then you crying to the started in the slightest price with the russian invasion. so counting no tree i in the foreign height is, is complicated or controversial. and this is, i suppose. ready as in your lead in package talking about israel, this is obviously a very culture. ready issue issue with this route being a pretty wealthy country fire per capita g d p, the spine by the japan,

the size 5 and country i come from new zealand site. it is a fairly strong economy and a global sense, but still receiving around $3.00 to $5.00. ready $1000000000.00 and i. ready actually miller tr. ready died from the united states every year. how much of that but ministry 8 actually come straight back into the u. s. benefits that, that the military industrial complex. yeah. great questionnaire. nearly all of it, in most cases of military either the united states gets means other nations of buying american technology. american choose way from great, but israel has a few exceptions to this is where i was able to spend some of that. i on its own uh in its own military. ready industries within israel did not have partnerships with united states, so it has some degree of freedom a bit. ready more often than other countries in this regard, you probably heard all very unscientific straw poll we spoke to americans. how to

add onto the street. do you think the us taxpayers really know how much of of the tax dollars goes towards providing military assistance rather than humanitarian aid? a not really. i think it's one of those of skewered issues of this very effective lobby. great. so certain countries and those lovely curts get a lot of support from the congress and then the congress creates a threshold. and then the button to demonstrations or any president reaches up to that threshold. i think that americans in general and sort of i. ready believe they could move far night, then like there are many americans, like people in a lot of countries, probably with the country i live in australia. doesn't have a to break. so the detailed grass of a lot of details with far to fees in general, americans are in favor of giving money to poor people, but they don't want to pay for themselves. and that's similar to far night. most people are 5 or the idea of humanitarian assistance, particularly,

but they don't want to see text prize money used to book for our night sites. that obviously is one of those contradictions. we can have one without the other, but we see that pretty consistently of a time and surveys and tests that you are set conditions when it gives for an aide . for instance, does it only give 2 countries political objectives and levels of democracy? a similar or a spy to be like its own. does any of this money end up being misused by autocratic leaders? for example. well, we'll leave all of the above and then you can find pretty a plenty of examples before an ice has been. ready used where it's used for very politic wise, which is to die in economic axis and to cite the congo at the moment. ready which is the vice of the largest. ready peroration is very valuable, minerals that so the concern and interest about that part of the world, which is at some level genuine that's being caribou. some was terrible,

did 1000 in the congo, but it was so. ready there are you know, valuable. ready very valuable to the special window resources which the united states and other countries are very concerned about the site. yeah, there's often a specific reason to give the i, one of the interesting things that the trumpet ministration is that to, to kind of neglect of some of these issues. it continues on during the trump administration because they don't get down to that level of detail. probably a pointing investment is to. ready a lot of countries will take me a long time to and one of the consent to be the real sort of levels of humanitarian that. ready will. ready elect donald trump, the more active on that front and i people. ready ready are concerned with this of games giving fire and i, and some of these cuts which we sort of immigration, for instance refugee and then takes them to the united states. well that it was so cool with foreign aid and the size 2nd shop administration professor. it's been great to talk to you brandon,

and thanks very much indeed for being with us on counting the cost. my pleasure. the president drove by and those ramped up terrorist on the $18000000000.00 worth of chinese import splitting to the electric vehicles have bounced batteries. so the sales steel, i leave it in a medical equipment, the white house, said demetrius, we're in response to unfair policies, and aim to protect american workers, china, oppose the hikes, and said that it would take retaliatory action. and we'll be discussing all of this in a future edition of counting the cost apple as apologize for making a new i ipad commercial that showed at industrial compressor. crushing tools on music and create to the, to the company said it's marketing decision from miss the mock of trip faced a backlash from designers, actors office. they have a seen as a metaphor of how big tank has cashed in on their work office to worry that artificial intelligence, which can write poetry and create movies,

may even take the jobs away prices of culpa. getting red hot on international markets rising recently to a 2 year high on the metals exchange. the metal is important to the green energy transition and the manufacturing of electric vehicles, power grids and wind turbines. the price riley is fueled by lack of investment in new mines supply risk and the prospect of a growing demand for such metals. as i'm want to cancel all flights and rounded, the planes up to the line went bankrupt. thousands of passengers were stranded into small pacific island nation to bump on to the island the allied while that has been struggling with labor shortages, rising operating costs and weather related issues in recent years. tourism accounts for 48 percent of the nation's g. d. p. a business owners feel effective about the front of the airlines grounding of zambia as customer. this stopping charcoal from being produced in several districts and is to say the move is needed to fight climate change,

but many people rely on it to cook food and for their livelihoods. and so they have no alternative source of energy. i'll just say it was kind of a task that reports a drought in zambia means the cuba, hydro power station con, generate enough electricity. a lot more families are using talk or for fuel because of routing blackouts. it's cheaper to buy than gas or petrol for getting right is but the government has banned the production of talk whole in some areas saying the practice is kidding environment and needs to stop. samuel 20 they can sell it back of charcoal for $6.00 at the market number to $9670.00. i was born in 1967, and i have been making and selling chuck or since i was a small boy. it's all my father is these families. it's how i have been providing for my wife and children. chuckle is made by shoveling swell onto a kiln, the wooden sidebands with little oxygen leaving the black copper residues for other

people. again, find a taco is a lifeline full. have that many. she's one of thousands in the capital. the 2nd who can afford to always buy electricity. oh my gosh, i might give it to you too much. i used the chuckle to cook beans and food for my children. i also boil, which i saw my children can, but this button will be bid for us, but the government stays the destruction of trees is contributing to climate change . and government leaders say a bad on charcoal is necessary to protect what's left of the country sparse. and the current drought brought on by the el nino with this a dominant is being made, was by deforestation, and the degradation of land investigations and believe it to one committee wanted to make a statement there that yeah, pretty much the rules that allowed and check will be going back every year. they'll be not jeff or benny. a chuckle. production is an age old cultural practice in zambia, passed on from one generation to another. is to just translate policy induction.

that means we got to mobilize, it means of implementation capacity technology under surface to go. and not only just a make people aware, but ties in with us to transition to get to change is nothing. these different families sometimes make additional cashed by southern clubs that grow in the fields, but it lack of rain the season has wiped out the harvest. and the say the government's bad on chuckle production is adding to the hutcher when the over the struggling to cope with that. so the a drought and the rising cost of living hot and with us out of the, for counting the cost. and that's our show for this week. if you'd like to comments on anything that you've seen, i'm at a finnegan on x trying to remember to use the hash tag a j, c t c. or you can drop us a line counting, the cost of our 0 don't met is our email address, as always says principal, if you online. but how does 0 dot com slash c t c? that takes you straight to a page and then you'll find individual reports, links,

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