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d.w. business. on in berlin how you can join us. we begin in ghana where the government has been trying to reduce its dependency on imports at the moment it's hard to find original domestic products there especially in the supermarkets but one locally made it is a flying off the shelves 12 keys are popular across kano and maybe kong and export hit in africa. this factory in eastern ghana khan's make enough profit spoke block cookies to buy to william which produces drinks and snacks like these for the local market the old company has already gained the market share of 40 percent of the gun in my case. it's money just see the products made here are world class. going away to be that people guessing what would happen to their country it high taxes thereby

increasing at a cost of their product but now we are here we are marching into a national stand that introducing competing international products as well which is very affordable today gagnon market then imports a lot of goods things like industrial machinery and consumer products in 2019 expands more than fits in $1000000000.00 on these imports food made up more than 6 of the 2 it's out that's something local producers wanted to change but the also want to export more members when the production side. would want to expand their facilities expand into small. and export more. on fortunately we don't have that our sense of international market in place we are looking at the words our programs or where we can produce and then supply to be

serious many people shop at markets like these so local companies act. it's in them treat as yeah i'm glad too off i get in products instead of imports if the available the things that i sell in the market if i were to hard to look up an indulgence producing a guy would never import because it will serve me try to save me money than his government wants to make a look at production a priority seeing a factory would need to be built in every district to satisfy demand expect to see this cons happen quickly enough we seek significant the precision of our new car and see it all because of him we import reality and we need to be able to grew our industries to suck up to today for the things we poured in order to copy. and as free trade becomes

a reality across africa they hope they will be ready to seize opportunities across the continent and help africans say goodbye to many imported products. d.w. correspondent. joins us from across there you are isaac's if it were easy to produce locally then more companies would be doing it will put sort of challenges faced local production. so for many of the. production and huge investment from abroad from europe and america for the little company. of companies that i look. at many of them face challenges of access to capital. access to capital repairmen becomes the. production. cost of tools creates a factory and produce. it is expensive for many of them and if there

is a challenge. the government hoping to be sure that we have enough trees available to be able to produce enough to feed the. business but how we get themselves receiving products what do they think of. so that many some products that are really. access to these products. and they don't have it. imported by largely a lot of. government is trying to keep up the interest among. products that's really is the ground.

thank you very much. thank you now to some of the other global business stories making news. nigeria is set to establish a supplementary budget in march to cover the cost of covert $19.00 vaccinations the government plans to inoculate 40 percent of the country's $200000000.00 people this year and another 30 percent next year africa's most populous country has been hit by a 2nd wave of infections in recent weeks. the u.s. economy grew slightly faster than expected in the 4th quarter with official numbers pegging g.d.p. at 4 point one percent but overall the u.s. economy contracted 3 and a half percent due to the pandemic for the full year the biggest drop since world war 2 but analysts expect a quick rebound as the vaccine rollout continues. brussels is taking on the good economy the european commission is a launching

a consultation on how to improve the conditions for people working for tech platforms although they don't call out companies by name the likes of ride sharing apps and food delivery sites are set to come under increased scrutiny. it's long been controversial ride sharing apps like say they drive as a self-employed whereas unions want them to be treated as employees with health benefits and paid time off it's the same for delivery workers and others taking part in the so-called gig economy now the european commission is launching a consultation aimed at improving the conditions for platform workers saying some are getting a raw deal across europe people who work from pat from well they risk to be left without income and they're not always an example for national support nations during knockdowns. and even those who have work that koreas of the drivers well

they sometimes have really poor working conditions. long hour shifts or little or no social protection should they fall in and no pension shame no access to training or skills development as a 1st step to addressing these issues the e.u. is asking trade unions and employers socio sions for their feedback on what the block should do to support good economy workers it's just the 1st stage on the road to new regulation and the platform operators will be watching closely. earlier we spoke to the e.u. commissioner for jobs and social rights nicholas schmidt i asked him if clamping down on tech platforms could backfire and put people out of work no i don't think so i am not questioning correctible work organisation this is something which is part of the new way that how this economy functions but on the other hand we have to make sure that people who are working on these platforms of all the

platforms that the question that they have how the insurance that they are also socially protect it that they have an insurance against accidents these are part of our social norm social protection systems and we should not build an economy of the 21st century going backwards somewhere in the 19th century before bismarck so i i would not be equated with that that's why we need some concrete action here. now if you're having a hard time buying a playstation 5 game console the global semiconductor shortage is probably to blame a shortfall of the little chips is slowing down major industries now this is something that i have taken a special interest in how did chips get so important here's what i learned. you don't buy them directly but trust me you need them so when the silicon chips are

down what happens well we're finding out. the auto sector has been hit hard with car companies around the world pulling the brakes on production although they're not the only ones makers of gadgets and popular electronics are feeling it too the chip shortage could be why you're having a hard time finding a p.s. 5 or a thought. about one trillion chips are made a year that's about $120.00 for every person on the planet. suffice to say the world runs on chips slash semiconductors so why are we coming up short pandemic changed consumer behaviors we're buying personal computers new phones new tablets x. boxes so we can work from home and to cope with the lockdowns and companies upgrading their digital infrastructure to enable remote working and all these purchases and driving up the thing and put chips at the beginning of

a pandemic we have estimated economic downturn industries such as the automakers they slashed the chip purchases and but they calming east asia bounced back sooner than expected with more demands for cars carmakers keep limited him and tories are right now out there buying buying buying the coronavirus crisis reshapes supply and demand chip companies are scrambling and if there is an industry that can simply quickly ramp up production or ask its clients to do without its products for a while or shift its manufacturing elsewhere rapidly it's the chip in the story so quietly and have been spread across countries as the cost of communication has gone down along with you know the cost transportation so this is what largely seen as a good thing to spread the production of city connectors and other high tech components across countries you know kind of based on some sort of fundamental theories of economics and that by doing so you could reduce the cost of production

thereby increasing efficiency in complex supply chains. may stretch around the world but especially asian companies lead in producing chips taiwan's t. s. and c. is the world's largest contract manufacturer for semiconductors its sins had to reassure governments like car export reliant germany that it will try to prioritize auto chips but the pandemic has already taught a painful lesson. cold it's also sure global supply chains are a relatively easily destroyed and many industries i know they probably need to be rethought and or should lower redundancies built. and that simply means more sites globally introducing me saying. it's in all countries interests to ensure a dependable supply research and development manufacturing closer to home putting more and varied suppliers and making the supply chain shorter are going to be key

so when the chips are down it's a good time for countries of the world to think about how best to invest to make sure the supply chains stay up in the future. good stuff that's it from us thanks for watching. to the point strong opinions is a clear position some international perspectives. temperatures are once again rising between the u.s. and iran so we'll to college and of these be able to renegotiate be around nuclear deal with the trump turned his back on a choice yet again or will the downward spiral continue find out on to the point. to the point. even 60 minutes on t w happiness is for every human penises or. so different from primates you know how

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