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d w that i wish i could have done more. the save, you discover stories that me just a click away. find out basic documentary on youtube. oh, really. good morning. see the world as you've never seen it before. dr. now, t d w document change. this is did up in years asia coming up to date, how inflation across the region is impacted people's lives. beginning in pakistan where soaring food prices have left some parents with no other option than to pull out their kids from school. we look at how bad the situation is and what the government is doing about it. and in the beans,
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the humble onion has become. so precious that one bridal couple decided to make a statement. ah, i british vanity, welcome to the dublin news insured. magical join us sorting. inflation in pakistan is impacting its children more and more are being pulled out of school by their parents. unable to afford the costs of their education, the southeastern mission is reeling from a 40 year high in prices, particularly of the central commodities. as the country negotiates for the international monetary fund for a bailout poor parents in particular a having to choose between feeding their children and educating them. wow nadia amine helps her younger sisters with their home lack. the 16 year old from the hall was forced to drop out of school last year after the cost of food and
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bills sword. okay, decided i only know a little bit of english and i want to learn more and go to school. but what can i do? i want to help my parents. my sisters are studying. they will have good futures. nadia now works as a maid like her mother. each morning they walk for one hour to get to work. they can't afford transport for her parents. the decision to pull nadia out of school has been heartbreaking. that money will always be my unfulfilled wish that i couldn't let nadia continue her education. the family is better off than many others in pakistan. yet they can only afford to eat twice per day and have stopped buying milk or meat. but mohammed and mirage still try to prioritize school for their 5 younger children by new uniforms books. these are very expensive. we may
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not have flour, but we make sure we buy the children's school books. pakistan has faced years of economic mismanagement and political instability, coupled with last year's devastating floods and the global energy crisis. the economy is collapsing, inflation has reached levels unseen since the 1970s. the government has taken steps to meet bailout conditions from the international monetary font slashing subsidies and raising taxes, pushing inflation higher. even with the i, m. f, loan economists predict it will take years for pakistan to recover, and with food prices soaring, the family is worried. their younger children will soon have to leave school to be devoted bought beneath java dog than our for more context finish. how bad is the situation? british, the situation is really bad, specially for children that belong to the middle class of the country and low
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income families of the country. an average expenditure of a household has increased so much. good families have to make significant got expensive. and that means many families have been forced to get children from expensive schools. and we can go into cooper. schools. i'm pulling out children from schools that are far away from homes and sending them to sending children to school that are closer to homes. because families gone for transportation costs. now, in some data, find situations, some families who belong to some really low income families have to make decisions off completely pulling out children from this is not all been some of the children . so these children can, instead of going to school on monday and support the family and conditions,
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nobody's pocket funds or country up to 20000000 people and almost the top of the population is poor. now education is it kicked out of why would be for many of the families and what's happening now because of the normal crisis. this ready gene off . but if i need to get out of poverty, if being crushed, finish pulling children out of school. is this an existing problem that is only being made worse? so pakistan has the 2nd highest out of school children. nearly 23000000 children between the age of 5 and 16 are not winter school. and most of these children belong to the villages or the country side of the country. and these children were already disadvantage when it comes to education. and their situation got worse during go over it because of go with related through years,
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a lot of the student couldn't go to school for more than a year. and because they belong to poor families, they did not have, they couldn't afford computers. they did not have access to internet a, so did education was completely destructed for more than a year. and then last year, buck is on was hit by flint. and these floods infected most of the families that been infected by these of flux. but also because their families and farming families and what happened in these black was that more than 27000 schools, what i did complete kid destroyed or damage. and that led to destruction of education more than 3000000 children. so floods definitely affected the communities of the country and flag that lead are going in trickling the current economic crisis. these are not also affecting children of incentives. is this impacting, or goals disproportionately and focused on though out of these
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$23000000.00 children? what out there $20000000.00 are goods and 49 percent of pocket money goes drop out to $20.00 classes. and even in the current crisis, goods added a disadvantage because when a family house can make a choice of pulling out children from school between a good child. and boy, they would prefer the boy to stay in the school because the gender assumption is that the girl would get married with the family. but it's the boy who take the responsibility of the family and, and buckets. and that is also leading to a giant manages, and bucket time is also home to 19000000 try try rights for all of these girls have never been to a school. we don't know what the normal child is like, and it's, it's not only money and not only guns are we get values that are disadvantage
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because many times it's the, it's simple the, it's complete the issue. that's ability and i'll give you an example in 2010 i asked which was covering floods in northern barcas on and i was, i went to a village in an, in the or so was about the down of by defense education activists. malala use of state and one of the village, i met a farmer and i went to his home and i saw his 2 daughters. and i just asked him, which school to do to go to? and i remember you guys told me that he has never been to a school because there was no school in that village. and the family simply couldn't afford to send these goods fiercely from one village to another. and if they were boys, of course, they would have found out the way to go to school. so goods as you do many different reasons, goods or do you mean you wish the disadvantage when it comes to education?
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and what is the party on government doing to address these problems? i guess only government spend do less than 2 percent of the last year on education . now you in agencies recommended governments expend at least 4 percent of the national income and education. the government fees it is facing on media to problems. it is trying to fight economic immense down for it does not have the capacity and resources to invest in education. now after the government it international community for the government says it has the pledges have not been fulfilled un unit. so for instance, has a huge education program and focused on other organizations. but they also see that they are struggling when it comes to funding for education and then back as an estimate that it least it needs a minimum of $1000000000.00 just for the recovery of education system that was
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destroyed because of a lot of problems. thanks, so bring all of that into context for us. be nice. java. thanks so much. in the philippines. meanwhile, high food prices are turning some basic staples into luxury items. the price of the humble onion has surpassed those of many kinds of meat. for example, prompting the government to order emergency imports. the problem has become so acute that one couple decided to use their wedding to highlight it. ah, bring on the tears. this bride in the philippines walk down the aisle with a bouquet of onions. her 5 kilogram bouquet has become a symbol of inflation in the country. if you love it more days before, no abbey, i don't like jane, shall we not plan. 4 days before the wedding, we changed our plans when upon that, why not?
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he was onions instead of flowers had been updated on wednesday, so that after the wedding we can still use them dollars. now, saudi will be the only torn out. so why not be more practical when i'm in a, via an o. the grew to sported a buttonhole made of baby onions and all the bridesmaids. catty drinks of the bulbous when she onions are a staple ingredient and filipino cazin. but soaring prices have turned them into a luxury, lately, onions cost twice as much as beef. when dorothy in january, the price had spiked as high as $11.00 per kilogram. yo assembly and it was hot for us because the price reached $600.00 bethel. oh, i wanna my, we feel saudi for some of the customers going to be love. i mean, we weren't able to sell much critic say inflation and climate change and driving up
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the cost. the filipino government blames local traders for hoarding and creating an onion shortage. many locals, especially farmers, are furious about that even believe in bobby, we go here. we do not believe in this shortage because we have a large supply of onion. the shortage is a creation of the traders be more than the traders are monopolizing the prices they, they're, they're saying that there's a scarcity. that is why the prices are up mom, that's how the government will justify importing will get there. will say the supply is inadequate. while lawmakers probe what's going on the couples, wedding photographs have become a sensation on social media. over with the old band with a sudden fan. i mean, i would expect that we did not expect it to go viral. so we just wanted our wedding to be unique and memorable me what i will you,
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i am and memorable. it has become even for many of us who are not invited. and that's it today on my website to find more stories from our correspondence on the impact of inflation on family budgets and plans across to region. and as ever, you can follow us on facebook and twitter back again at the same time tomorrow we will see you then. by now the car is made in germany. for decades, they were a symbol of excellence and reliability. what they are glamorous image is getting its blemishes, are cost cutting measures and a focus on efficiency affecting quality german cars. when will they lose their
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