where the casbah claridge reports. business has been down here for years but there's little digitalisation apparent in old town. just a few kilometers away however visions of the future are being discussed this huge congress center is in the modern business district of the vietnamese capital and it's here that the world economic forum is meeting never have so many southeast asian leaders attended the yearly events. vietnam's prime minister is promoting the region he says is already home to the world's largest economy digitalisation would drive growth further. we've been the world's factory and till now that creates growth but now we'll see faster growth through innovative ideas. but the downsides of a technological revolution are also being openly discussed in hanoi millions of jobs could be at risk and inequality could rise especially for women what we're seeing with the digital economy and as it grows is that the great strides that the as countries have made in closing the gender gap is actually widening again. we're

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currently the second fastest growing economy in the region after china did obvious money like us but claridge travel to the country to get a taste of a nation in the midst of an economic transition. she's carrying on a tradition that no longer carries the economic waste it once did. here and how long bay in northern vietnam fishing used to be the main source of income. but nowadays many people have set their sights elsewhere taking corporate jobs and fishing only on the side. vietnam's economy is expanding rapidly the annual growth rate is over six percent and with the free trade deal with the european union jus to be ratified in january that figure could ride. sixty five percent of tire and sidon would search for cation would be standardized within a period of five to ten years one hundred percent of existence our years would be lifted and this would give vietnam an incredible competitive advantage in that region but. this factory in the capital hanoi is operated by german company the colony it produces medical equipment for the administration of intravenous therapy. devices like these are h

, dewey claridge. dewey had -- i dedicated last summer spoke to dewey who just passed away and we had something that he was doing where he was outsourcing intelligence gathering and multiple different ways, whether atmospherics on the ground in afghanistan to help inform the dod about how to do force protection to keep the troops safe, he wasn't it interesting, fascinating guy and i based horvath's boss on dewey claridge. >> host: do cia intelligence operatives have the unlimited funds that scott horvath -- >> guest: no, unfortunately. [laughter] there was a great book written, nonfiction, that was called the human factor and it was written by a cia operative who was very unhappy with the culture at the cia. he would request or send in requests to approach certain potential assets and he'd have his request sent back to him five times because the commas were in the wrong places. they would string them along and say no and he was constantly paint his sources out of the pocket and take the agencync foreve

did only as many like us but claridge is the summit currently underway in vietnam and there she caughtup with a former indonesian finance minister mohammad to basra to ask him about rising inequality and how this problem could be tackled. well as a former finance minister of course the obvious instrument for this will be to fiscal policy. increasing the tax ratio in order to make sure that spending on social assistance you know could be made because we have to have enough money for that but the second one is also to improve. the sign and part of the thing about the social spending. let me give an example on the issue like. pension yeah we need to do reform on that issue on a good thing to protect the poor we need to make sure that the one who get a benefit of the support will be the poor people let me give an example in the case of indonesia we subsidized the poor for fuel subsidy but in fact the one who got a benefit put israel subsidy and middle and upper class and not the poor so rather than giving a subsidy through you know like the fuel subsidy it's better to give like a class tha