was helping to light up his community while also cutting down on plastics and electronic waste. chris kolber, welcome to the program. worldwide around 1000000000 people live with a disability. many of them are successfully employed, but overall firms are still missing out heavily when it comes to making use of the potential, which people with disabilities have, with international day of persons with disabilities taking place on sunday. we'll talk about why and how to change that in a moment. after this, in germany, 3000000 people have a severe disability. and only half of those between $16.65 have a regular job that's representative of the average employment rate of people with disabilities. and the ease you with one and 2 are employed, the rates even lower in other regions. it's about a quarter in asia pacific and to figure fault further in the us and latin america.

despite efforts to include more people with disabilities and the former labor market, and rising levels of employment rates worldwide, people with disabilities continue to phase wide spread discrimination and marginalization. their exclusion from the former labor market deprives the world of an estimated $1.00 to $1.00 trillion us dollars in los gdp every year, according to the international labor organization. all right, let's good morning. this from caroline cassey. she's a founder of the valuable 500, a global business collective working together to end disability exclusion in the workplace. well, come to the w, where do those regional differences that we just saw in the report come from as well? i think every different country and culture has a very different understanding of disability and i think that's how you're seeing

a difference in employment rates or in the lives of people with disabilities. traditionally, disability would be seen as something that is less than or damaged or charitable. on one of the things in your, if we have is the social model which is basically saying, it's not the person with a disability, it's a problem. it's the way society is being design 1st. so it just depends on what culture and watch context is speaking to. caroline, you say that companies are losing big by not employing people with disabilities. what are the arguments that you here for not employing people with disabilities. it's, you know, we don't hear arguments but not, we're just not seeing the absolute understanding of the value that people with disabilities and their families can deliver to the economy and to business. and you've got to remember that figure 1300000000 and a mother and father's 54 percent of our global economy. and people forget that disability comes in all shapes and forms. i myself have a disability,

but it will touch everybody's life at some point. and the issue is that again, people don't recognize that 13 shortly. and so we're talking about the loss of 1.9 trillion potentially to the economy. but let's flip that around and say pew with this disease and their families have 13 trillion to offer. the reason that we're not seeing that connection, as we forget the people with disabilities and their families, are also consumers. and how can companies adequately a successful engage with that market if they're not connecting mouse to having the talent and their business to understand how to serve the consumer base, be with disabilities bring huge levels of insights and innovation on from differentiation to organizations. our scale trying to hammer that home is not about char, he visits an economic issue, and it's an issue of value. so what are the, what are the points that you can specifically address here when it comes to making a case for people with disabilities being a stronger part of the workforce as well?

so, you know, what we're often asked is like, what's the business case? and you know, i think we've now finally moved to be on us. i think this is in fact a risk for business because when we see the figures on the population that connects to disability and you add in aging. but there are some things that we're really, really finding that we're working on. one of the biggest parts of the valuable $500.00. so we worked with $500.00 the world's biggest companies and ceo's 13 of which are actually headquartered in germany. it's about the leadership of the organization taking accountability. i'm being intentional, investing or supporting the business and investing. the 2nd thing is we already know that anything between 12 to 15 percent of every single company has a connection to disability, but it's not being disclosed. and like that's a huge opportunity for intelligence in the business, because 80 percent of disability is invisible. the most important thing is we've got to start reporting. we've got to start getting that stays up because of that

the days that we're not going to be able to do anything. and i want to make the show to allianz, which is one of the valuable $500.00 to iconic companies. and oliver, based on what we have done, is up to 5 harmonize metrics that we want our companies to start reporting on in the annual report. so we can have a sense of what's happening because without that we can do nothing with us employee resort scripts. how do we get them together with an executive sponsorship, right? making sure our companies are talking to the disability community because that's, that's the way we can solve this issue. kinda in case you have the value of 500 collective. thank you very much. i now to some of the global business stories making years countries that the comp 20 had time to somebody to buy a flash more than $400000000.00 to the damaged one. to help nations harvested by the time of crisis. both the u. a and germany led all the governments in placing financial supports and funds, which was decades in the make u. k. commuters, on track for more disruption, a trade union representing train drivers will continue their strike over wages for

the next 6 months. halting service across brit. it's been almost 5 years since the train drivers received a pay raise your insights. carmack, a test was delivered its 1st electric pick up cyber truck company boss loan musk personally handed over several of the vehicles to their new owners. tesla also reveals that of $60990.00, the cheapest model is over 51 percent more expensive than most touted so several years ago to worry about like was getting the glass and cracking the glass. the that's the more about this with then i was managing director in senior equity analyst at web birth security is welcome back to the program then. so later than expected, more expensive than forget a little much says, the cyber truck is tesla's best product, is it is stark a moment. i mean, for cash flow to come out of this for years in the meeting, i think it's innovative and into,

in my opinion as to how fast they continue to really own the dublin down. i think many will kinda be of defense here. but i believe this is gonna be a home run success. so us car giants have their own electric pick ups on offer. however, they haven't sold well. so using this will be different because it was not. i think ultimately people on it the test maybe not an electric vehicle. i mean tasha is established similar as apple a brand the video and i think if you look at mars, can you look at cyber truck? it's innovative. the mad max design currently may not be for all, but i believe this is going to be in there be. well right now to 1000000 reservations. we think 40 percent of those converts the 800000 vehicles. this is going to be a growth driver in my opinion for task. so in most pricing has been an issue for customers. when it comes to electric vehicles. now it has

a cyber truck is substantially more expensive then initially announced how much is that going to be an issue? the price discoveries an issue, i may be look $60000.00 go into these when you take out taxes called at $55000.00 now being 2025, but $80000.00 that's towards the base model and it definitely is on the expensive side. i think it's important that this price comes down over the next 612 months, but it's all about scale. come out of the gates, they're gonna lose about $40000.00 every vehicle, but i think is we in 2025 price will come down. that's where it becomes cash flow positive. that's the key here. it's still a trophy case moment in terms of them actually producing something many times never what happens. all right. then i was managing director and senior equity analyst and web boost securities. then as always, thank you for your thoughts. thank you. students and

roles and bob way are benefiting from solar lights made from recycle plastic and electronic materials and young investor who is on a mission to reduce plastic and electronic waste designed to the low cost life useful for communities that have no access to electricity. dw correspondent privilege motion harry has more from her already or even after nightfall. these young people in the rural community of mistake, was some 70 kilometers, se of sim, but was capital. however, i do not have to put the books away. that's thanks to the solar powered lights that are made from recycled materials that's involved with. roughly 70 percent of the rural population have no access to electricity. the only light that used to be available came from kerosene lamps. but these are these use and country pollution. 25 year old i knew buying in my younger is in electrical engineering to edward and

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