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the actors in a clever way. d w with the which african country has the most promising startup steam. we'll look at a new ranking and speak with our correspondent in one country. we're start off the bounds, but the infrastructure still needs some help. i also want to show it turns out the very richest american paid very little in taxes. we'll look at a new report that could put more pressure on the u. s. to tighten its tax set and cheap chinese imports. our challenge for markets around the world was zoom in on the ceramic table where market for europe and firms have had to get creative just

to compete. hello, welcome to the show. i'm seeing basically in berlin, where in africa, the tech startups have the best opportunities. while the british magazine f, d i and research company, brighter bridges have made their own assessment. they've compared criteria including infrastructure, access to capital, training opportunities among others. and here's what they've come up with. now, at the top, south africa beating almost everyone else in all of those areas, followed closely by kenya, which is home to the mobile banking giant in pay. so one of the biggest spin techs on the contracts to need you there. at number 5, given high marks for its business friendliness and nigeria at number 6. here's the thing about the jury. it actually has the largest number of started on the content . they're not necessarily the evaluations and investment that you would see elsewhere. now for more on this we have the w correspondent, floors took war in logos, he's joining us for us. can you hear me? i think yes, i can. all right, terrific floors what makes the lago start up scene. so dynamic

well, trucks of all they got has a very high population of the young people, the youngest population across the continent. and apart from that where challenges bound, people always wants to find solutions. so because of how challenging the see to be in a jury and young people are always coming up with several ideas, try to find solutions. not also mation 5, that one is, i mean it's very high. so people are driven to, to, to find employment by themselves. or to invent jobs, jobs by themselves. that's why it's been a lot of people trying to price. it shows the problem far as the floors a high amount of innovation. they're nigeria, high amount of young people looking to solve problems. what are the challenges that they face with their startups to really get on the board and make progress?

well, there are lots of challenges that we know just been. it's been a nigeria. no, doing any type of my major area of the top of the nice infrastructure here in a jury asked the access to the tennis is very low. in fact, this is why we are having these interview or doing the new one. and there is also no power electricity. so most of the time we have very few hours of electricity need the we're asking other countries you have 24 hours of rights. there's also access to funding. you know, people show me to just get off the ground for the august me don't have morning to do that. so the stock of the manager is struggling with a lot of challenges all that out. or that actually got quote,

trees may not necessarily cease flores, to what extent has the government recognized the challenges and tried to encourage tech, the tech sort of seeing briefly if you can. yes. of course, the government has always said that very support of doing business. the major insurance generally, i mean those costs will be said it a lot of things. what, when it comes down to it when it comes down to policies, we are rather seeing a government that wants to the sky for that. want to control that doesn't want to give me the freedom to really be nigeria and government. those are we need some support of major area, right. it just court environment they're flourish. took war correspondent in logos . thank you very much. alright here's looked out some of the other business stories making headlines and we stay in the area where an ongoing twitter band has digital

activists fearing freedom of expression in the country could be endangered. the government banned the platform after it deleted a remark from president mohammed to the heart of the ban affects close to 40000000 accounts in africa's most populous nation. and e, you court has an old the blocks approval of 550000000 euros in state aid for german airline con door. that's a win for iris budget carrier, ryan air, which also challenge massive pandemic for kale in the netherlands. and portugal t a p. however, the court has state action on the verdict, while european commission time to reconsider the case. something we reported on a few days go el salvador has become the 1st country to adopt bitcoin as legal, tender lawmakers and the central american countries congress passing the bit coin law prices can now be shown in the crypt. currency taxes can be paid with it, and it will not be subject to capital gains tax you can finance minister richie sooner is speaking to exempt london's financial institutions from

a proposed global minimum corporation tax. that news comes less than a week after g. 7 nations agreed to back the tax with do not voting in favor of it, but he now says he fears a competitive disadvantage for the sector. if the proposed 15 percent minimum were adopted. staying on the subject of taxes, a new report out of the u. s. says that several of the richest americans pay 0 income tax and recent years investigative unit pro public claim to have seen tax returns showing, for example, that amazon chairman jeff phases, the world's riches person made 0 payments in 200720112 tax authorities. meanwhile, the world's 2nd riches tycoon. tesla c o l, a muscular recognizing they're also pe, precisely 0 dollars in federal income taxes in 2018 financial giant. george soros, also known as the man who broke the bank of england, paid no income taxes over 3 years. no pro public report of the 20, the $25.00 richest americans paid a tax rate of just 3.4 percent between 20142018. that's

a lot less than the 14 percent paid by the average american family for public. i not that how to obtain the confidential tax data. the u. s. tax authority, the r s is investigating the leak. now for more on this we have the tosh lynch. she's a professor of political science at the university of essex. natasha, thanks for coming onto the show. how much of a surprise is this leak actually? what should, what should we be surprised by i think for the average american, it is a surprise that the people who are billionaires, where the richest people in the world are paying really anything. there was some of this already with trumps revelations that there wasn't much that he was paying either. but i think it's shocking the loophole that some of the very rich are able to execute either through having really good account. they seem to be able to do all the deductions that they need, deliver their money to charity some way,

and they figure out ways to just take out a loan. so they never have to sell any of their shares so that they would have to pay tax the capital gains tax. and these are things that the average american might not completely understand. but what we're seeing is that the billionaires are paying less than the average middle class americans do. americans you touched on briefly, but do americans have the same kind of access to this kind of investment? i mean, there are pension plans such as the for one case, for example, private pension plans. investment is open to everyone. couldn't you just say that these opportunities to, to basically build up capital and not pay as much income tax on that? isn't that available to everyone? i mean, isn't that the american dream? in some sense? yes, but they wouldn't have access to the titles accountants of the building or how that really figure out ways to just get around every type of tax that they might have to pay. and they don't have the means to just take out loans so that they can buy

houses all over the world. instead, the african american ends up paying their fair taxes. but what we're finding is that the rich americans are hunting ways around. and that's actually one of the reasons why joe biden is trying to invest more in the i r s. so they will have more power, more power of enforcement, which could possibly raise up to 2 trillion. because the problem isn't the, the average americans that are paying their taxes, all of them seem to be doing. so it's the ultra rich, the find, you know, legal loopholes around it and sometimes illegal. and another idea that we saw that gain traction during the democratic primaries, especially was his idea of a wealth tax. is there any political room for that in the u. s. right now, as you see it, it's actually popular to look at polio. you see that 60 percent of americans are in favor of some sort of wealth tax. this is in spite of the fact that neither warren

or birdie sanders ended up winning the nomination in more in the plan was to have this wealth tax for those are over $50000000.00 and standard plan was for those are over 32000000. it wouldn't even effect that many people about 180000 people would have been effected by sanders plant and about 70000 people by war and plan. so there is a momentum. there is even more republicans to, to support this because you even have 53 percent of republicans that support a wealth tax. alright, natasha lynch, the university of essex. thank you very much. thanks for having me. right. from taxes to chinese imports. a spare thought for the ceramic table where market things like bowls, plates and cups. european manufacturers often find themselves at a clear disadvantage. the chinese producers who of course can mass produce while under cutting them on labor costs. now european producers are trying to overcome that disadvantage with a focus on ours and ship as well as new technology. here's our report from portugal

. handmade in small series, that's gasper roach. as a business model. 20 years ago his ceramics factory was much larger. and yet 15 employees, your thought was when i was filling in order for a portuguese customer, he came by with a sample from china. we asked the cost of the package piece was less than my labor costs alone, not to mention material and energy costs that no fall of the thing because a lot of you guys to the game and that's when rocher realized that mass production wouldn't work. so he downsize the company. now 6 employees produce exclusive pieces, according to customer specifications and it's working. but portugal ceramics industry still does mass production. mesa, ceramics makes traditional tableware, but almost went broke soon after opening since new bars took over a year and a half ago, it's doing well against chinese competitors. not coffee. and we managed to produce

more with better quality and fewer staff source. and our employees are highly qualified. so my belief, francisco braga brought an idea to me. so from his last job, meiza now uses robots. high degree of automation, combined with digital printing makes individual series possible. mesa creates a wide variety of colors and designs with just a few shapes. will digital printing. thank you. general printing has huge potential for me to the thing over the years could yet we can carry out lots of ideas with it for me to get he can set new trends, knowledge to dance his it didn't take long for mesa to export his crockery to a wide variety of countries, it produces earthenware for other brands as well. the pandemic acted as an accelerator. last year. german sales alone rose by almost 25 percent over the

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