series with whoever, raising the ground or breaking questions can go into the after life or savings saving the world. 42, the answer to almost everything this week on d. w. the, a beacon of hope. now that's what the un secretary general antonio. good damage called the green deal. the agreement allowed ukraine to export wheat by the black sea. ukraine and ships could pass through the russian naval blockade and had for international markets. but the deal expired last july, and russia refused to extend it. instead, it started attacking ukraine in ports since then,

t of has been looking for tentative roots to export. it's great. we'll be looking at those in this edition of made dw business magazine. also coming up on the show. it's bains and you minimum wage leading to job losses. can the growth help save the weld and reduce consumption? and what kind of digital you wrote tree chip on the to invalid. welcome to the show . early this year, spain was the leading buyer of ukraine and green ukraine, exported $2900000.00 tons to spain. and no, far behind it came china and turkey. 650000 tons works, put it to egypt, and 300000 tons to germany. now that the green deal has ended, you crate and farmers need to transport grain overland by poland. flow back you, hungary, romania and bulgaria. but these countries already fighting back against the flood

of grain by introducing import stops, a russian rocket attacks a green silos of the printing company rein alliance, spoiling 16000 tons of wheat. the attack was recorded by one of the company surveillance cameras. green alliance grows wheat, rape seat, and may use on their 60000 hector's of land before the war. the harvest towards shipped from the harbor of odessa to china and came to leisure. but that's changed since rushes block kate of the black sea port. t leads and we think general it was going to indonesia and markets. china was primaried. market for form from ukraine. unfortunately is not there because making the, the west coast bar. so it's like seaports closed is not still possible. brought us lava the capital of slovakia. we used to green alliance managers have

come from hours long meetings with customers who want to buy grain before the war. they had big contracts from china in indonesia, but now they have to struggle to find new customers. you know where we're located. and so i can so like is one of the challenges that custom clearance. however, having access to europe in the roadway, we are doing direct fest loading and sending our products to delete germany. elsewhere in europe with our players and customers, are willing to take it to take the land route through the e u. grain alliance has purchased an entire fleet of railway cars, but they can no longer export the green to china or indonesia. because the transport costs by land would be far too expensive. right? on the ukranian slovak border green alliance has purchased this loading terminal here. the green has to be reloaded onto a narrow,

or european standard wagons. that costs time and a lot of money. the green alliance managers are under pressure. they have to sell their goods and keep the business running so that they can pay those $700.00 employees. there is 12 month cycle and we have to continue. and to continue it, we need to export drain. we need to sell it to get any proceeds. it's not just about money, but about employment that about texas. it's about over all the gone, the mill for crane and the economy of companies. the slovak farmers who work their fields right next to the loading terminal, support your brains, fight against the russian oppressors. but they're suffering from the drop in grain prices triggered by the brain, imports from ukraine to him, i spoke. i can only sell his $200.00 tons of weed from last year at a significant discount. he hopes the prices will go up again and his grain doesn't go multi before then. so

for our company is to sell a lot of green to poland and hungary for the market. there is a full little ukrainian produce i think that was and really well to decide if we can find the transportation over the truck. so it's only loading a quick with these notes that are stuck on those of you wasn't me and you click on this yet. so that's despite the fact that 5 countries of sand, the import, a few cranium green, but green alliance is now experiencing increased demand from drought stricken italy in spain. this train is on its way from the slovak loading terminal to the northern c port of the docket. where large amounts of grain are being shipped the distance, some 1350 kilometers. the transport costs are accordingly high. the ukraine green alliance managers have found a german buyer here. they have no idea what he plans to do with the green. maybe it will be shipped to africa,

or it might even stay in the germany. that annoys farmers like literally sure. also grow grain on farms in the region. live fears that a lot of ukrainian green in germany will cause prices to plummet. g says any ukrainian green arriving in germany should only do so headed for the ports and on for export. elsewhere like a nomic leave and make a lot of sense for the easier to subsidize the transport of ukrainian week to the north and baltic seas. so that this, we could go to the developing countries and only be the greatest needs their kind of rushes warren ukraine is rocking the world wide green market. but despite the many difficulties, ukrainian producers are still finding ways to export their grain. the

consumption against russia help and the war in ukraine while the animals sanctions is to stop armed conflicts and weak and dictators experience shows. they really do that. so what does the international community achieve when it imposes functions? here are some answers. who does sanctions hot relays them? and to end holes, we can haul mongers prevent nuclear weapons manufacturing and transformed dictatorships into democracy's sanctions. foster right now, the most sanctioned country in the world is russia, with more than $12000.00 active sanctions against individuals and organizations. according to statistics from october 20, 22 and 2nd places around with several 1000 sanctions followed by syria and korea. that a russo stood with just over

a 1000 followed by venezuela and me and ma with several hundreds. but sanctions have almost never achieved the desired political goals. one exception is south africa was sanctions all believe to have helped with an end to a pol tied in 1994 functions. all by no means an effective thoughts. they usually affect the most vulnerable members of society and the incomes. the hottest . as shown by a study from the munich institute for economic research, it examined 67 countries effected by economic sanctions. it found that if the united nations had imposed the sanctions the countries g d p fell by an average of 2 percent pay. yeah. it's only thank you. asked had impose the sanctions union naturally. it was one percent extrapolated over 10 years. this means of dropping per capita g d, p of up to 25 percent in iran for example,

it's the young on educated rural population who stuff with the most in poor countries. life expectancy settled by up to 1.4 years during an average period of un sanctions. women are more effective than and however, they close. the study mostly looked at smaller economies. they also say the results comp, necessarily predict what would happen to a big economy like russia to make sanctions more tonka, said an effective, it's important to thoroughly investigate who they will end up affecting most the minimum wage in europe varies by country. germany funds and the u. k. of some of the highest minimum wages in europe, averaging around 12 euros per hour. but some countries in europe have

a minimum wage below 5 year olds and others don't even have a minimum wage. in february this year, spain res, it's a minimum wage by 8 percent. then you minimum wage mostly benefits. i would cultural work as what count for around half of minimum wage earners. but there are questions about whether it will lead to job losses. in the longer term these 2 field work is a irritating citrus fruit pond patients. they guess a 1080 years a month, which is now the minimum wage in spain. but their employer is having a hard time paying it is almost a little bit. i know that we think the government should help us pay workers a decent wage without costs. it's going up too much whether the nope it on these. what the important thing i was when know mentally is proof of united. i suppose. inflation has made fast lives and more expensive. drought means water is in short supply. and now work is wages have gone up, and farm is on benefiting from rising food. prices of the bus is starting,

sumption is going down across europe. basically all sales have fruit and vegetables in germany has gone down by 15 percent. that makes things worse. the prices are the same, but consumption is down. most of the middle schools will imperial got actually around the country produced as an export spanish garlic. what is here also get the minimum wage. they used to get 800 years a month and now one just over a 1000. but despite the res, then on to happy. yet i'm on that. oh no, no, no, apple, apple, the high prices for groceries a to blame and decide what to do better off when prices were lola. it's the following can see mid amount combined with higher costs of the company is a 160 employees. 40 of us that jobs seed bin demos because we sell

a lot less to the supermarket the same time our costs are going out. nobody wants to know. we were forced to let some more disco. the u. g t union in madrid hadn't even heard about the layoffs, its hales, the minimum wage height as a major step forward. this, they act as a sign y'all's a mess, and that's the ending for the past 6 years. we've had a steady increase in the minimum wage. it's a way of distributing wealth and making a large number of workers in spain better off. we're talking about more than 2000000 workers hours, including 4 here road popular last the last. so he's a security guard as a large chain of department stores and now ones 1092 years a month. but it's not enough in a city like madrid. no, no, but i'm out of, you know, no one committee on that is and i don't really have to worry about getting rent. i still live with my mother, but from many of my colleagues it's bad. they're struggling to pay their rent, which is high, but they're in a bad situation then case time,

then that would be later because i'm buy a new not a lot of money that they will get. that is a good so see to us the on. so it's better able to say phones i renew statistics indicating that the minimum wage increase has resulted in more people losing their jobs. but unemployment remains high to miss out. it may be unemployment rate in spain is not going down as steadily as it is in other european countries. it was by now it was, but the prices it will pay us. so with jobs disappearing in some sectors, spanish pharmacy, especially in southern spain, see a different problem. but if they, if they are product of believe it was right to raise the minimum wage in spain. but at the same time, b e u is importing fruit and vegetables from non union countries like morocco. and as far as i know, farm workers there, and it's sometimes earned as little as 3 zeros a day via phone call, have so many spanish workers and minimum wage raise was solely needed. but many

companies, especially in the farming industry and now struggling to pay that work is one possible consequence might be increased georgia mation in stains agricultural sector. the idea of becoming growth is very much grounded in consumption for countries gross domestic product to grow. it needs to produce and consume more. now that is an idea that i'm growing number of climate activists and policy makers do not agree with. they say reducing global economic activity or the growth is the only way to save the planet. but critics say increasing economic growth ensures, oh, well being be a reporter, emily les no way both sides or having more has given us a lot of comfort and a lot of choice. but with a pretty big price tag, like more carbon emissions, more resource depletion, more pollution, our addiction to making and consuming more stuff is exhausting the planet.

everyone's talking about avoiding a climate catastrophe. but it's switching to renewable energy and buying electric cars while keeping the status quote. really going to help a growing number of people say no, they want us to fundamentally change the way we run our economies. and with that, our lives, some call it the growth for decades, countries have been judged by the growth of their g, d p. that's gross domestic product. to more goods and services produced. the higher the g, d p, the cooler the country to keep having to the be great accumulating you also need to keep having more material stuff extracting and going through the economy. this is not sustainable on, on upside, it was, you know, a finite amount of resources. so this is where the idea of the growth comes in. the term, the growth is credited onto the gourds, an austrian french social philosopher, who in 1972 question whether it was a good idea to constantly make more stuff. shortly after academics at the

massachusetts institute of technology, publish a report called the limits of growth. this rigorous forecasts concluded that i'm less growth was curved, civilization would collapse like 2070 to suffice to say it didn't go down. well, the academic journal nature even called it a width of doomsday. the growth talks starting to crop up again in the 2 thousands when stated, begin to show just how it reversed of lee. we were harming the planet. a recent paper in nature. yes, the one who puts the gross back in the seventy's suggested that it should be widely and thoroughly considered. and the term has now made its way into the most recent, i pcc report on how to stay below 1.5 degrees celsius. one day growth approach that has been widely considered is decoupling where you get to maintain economic growth while reducing carbon emissions. where i live in the u. k, it's very proud of itself because it claims that it's managed to successfully d,

compromise its economy while g d p. i mean, it's not doing well, but g d p is, is growing slowly while our mission is appeared to be going down. surprisingly, especially countries with advanced economies have been able to do it. for example, by shifting towards renewable energy sources like denmark, which reduced its consumption based emissions by 35 percent between $22019.00. well growing the g d p per capita by 16 percent. germany reduced its carbon emissions per capita by 24 percent in the same timeframe while growing 26 percent. and even the united states did the same. which sounds great and definitely as a 1st step. but the problem is that the coupling is only concerned about c o 2. we live in many ecological crises, not just one is not just an issue of fossil fuel emissions. so here if we just say was about d compensation or any your missing ecological, the great ation. biodiversity last the u. k. has some of the worst by diversity of

any country in the world. never mind the, he just doesn't solve that problem. what next? the problem is even those who support with the growth stands for thinks the word itself is problem. attic. why don't like the term? the growth is it. it has a negative feel to at the key thing is shrinking material, the material inputs into economic activity. the growth sound scary, like it wants people to return to the dark ages. but it actually us means scaling down the least sustainable industries, like mass produced meat and dairy, vast fashion, car and innovation manufacturing. or ensuring that the things we rely on. refrigerators, phones, washing machines, have a longer shelf life repairing. instead of replacing something the moment it stops working. so it's not just about stopping growth, but about increasing growth and sectors that benefit society as a whole. like creating green jobs, trading workers, uninstalling, renewable energy,

insulating buildings, and regenerating eco systems, and investing and public transportation and services. what does that just wishful thinking? might this new approach to growth actually make life worse for us? this is a crux of the growth debate. would unravel the advances humans have made many facets of modern life, like living longer and lower rates of child mortality are associated with high g d, p. among other factors. economists that are in favor of the current system, say that more immediately the gross could mean widespread job loss, mortgage default and business closures. that it would force us all into a permanent recession per tailing, research and innovation. the thing is we need to develop green and more efficient technologies. the problem is that active di growth hasn't happened anywhere yet. meaning that nobody knows whether is that what happens? how do you address the creation of a world where rich countries don't?

that's actually slammed the doors by themselves and say, you know, we're gonna, we're going to diminish our growth of that. but you know, we're not gonna let you catch up to as to where we are. and that is a challenge. and a lot of the solutions around that involved in a large scale redistribution of wealth resources between countries that, that might be possible in a perfect world. but in the real world, it is very politically challenging. one suggestion by the grocer's is that on payable debts held by low and middle income countries should be cancelled so that they can focus their spending on public services. the idea is to even the playing field casings for the global south, our technology transfer. so, you know, to leapfrog dirty technologies to get the, the, you know, sort of latest generation or renewable technologies to global south countries for their energy needs number to finance, corporate finance to make that possible and also to finance other poverty alleviation. and so for supporters say that through economic growth,

the needs of more people could actually be served. still, we seem to perceive increasing g d p as a sign that we're winning. that however you frame it, giving it up for the sake of our future on this plan, it sounds to most people like we're asking them to start losing. so is the answer to deliberately slow down economic growth. you will find many governments willing to do that. moving away from ttp, for example, to metrics that value, you know, human impact across a wide variety of dimensions. you know, the human development index you and provides is a good example of that. you know, there's been some experimentation with like the country baton and it's gross happiness index that they've talked a lot about. and, and so there might be ways to redefine these metrics of success that would make it more palatable for, for politicians to embrace things that don't necessarily increase g d, p would increase the average wellbeing of people. i'm in a, in a way that, you know, is less resource intensive or destructive. another example is what former new

zealand prime minister just in the order and didn't 2019 when she announced national budget that prioritize citizen wellbeing and happiness over g. d. p, an economic growth under the budget. all news funding was required to advance government priorities. like improving mental health, reducing child poverty, and addressing the any qualities faced by its indigenous population, the growth or is envisioned and economy driven by alternative principles. the way doing the grace is the we need to imagine a different feature, a new ecological, a new relationship between humans and non human nature in which to match amenities because certain nature can flourish. on friday, the, the european central bank wants to introduce the digital euro by 2026. the virtual version of the euro is supposed to be an alternative. decrypt the cars,

these like bitcoin. and if area these virtual coins a voltaggio and are sometimes useful criminal activities. so central banks likely easily be coming up with digital versions of their currencies to offer the safer alternatives. our porter quit supercilious, took a look at how the digital euro will work. would you prefer to pay with digital currency or cash? the e u is planning to launch the digital bureau by 2026. the european central bank is investigating whether to introduce the electronic equivalent to cash in all 20 countries where the euro is legal tender. but how would work the digital euro will be stored in a digital wallet on your smartphone. you'll be able to move money from your traditional bank accounts into that wallet and make payments using your smartphone . but if you prefer to keep using bank notes and coins,

you can the idea is to restrict the use of the digital bureau to smaller payments using it for a larger amounts could otherwise the stabilize the bank. if customers were to transfer all their money to their digital wallet, the payments with the digital euro could be made online or offline direct from pay year to pe, he which affords more privacy. the, another advantage service providers like paypal, mastercard and apple pay charged fees. but paying with the digital euro would be free of charge. the payments across national borders would also be possible. the potential drawbacks consumer watch dogs fear it could replace cash completely and that

consumer behavior could easily be spied upon. but the gc b and system it will guarantee privacy and the digital euro will compliment not replace bank notes and coins. no, i can't wait to go shopping with a digital euro. and that brings us to the end of today's edition of made. thank you so much for watching. you can find more additions of our show on dot com slash business to join us again next time and until the end for me, i'm the entire team here in berlin. it's good by and take care the

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