battery sales production i'm joined by guns and i want program director at the european school of management and technology here in berlin but he with us the first question it comes to mind of course is just germany really need its very own electric battery sales production facility well you have to think that. batteries are a commodity nowadays so you can buy them anyway and they were. predominantly offices in asia and south korea japan china and we have had some experience with trying to establish a commodity production in germany with a photo tyke solar photovoltaic cells and that was that it not play only well and now it's all they called the news that were heavily subsidized then quiet by asian competitors and so that. miserably failed so in that respect i would say trying to get into a commodity market is something different than for example trying to build a complex airplane like this with a national champion or european champion. and so i would say it is not necessary to . put a lot of money into this pot and especially i mean this is a real push by the government also on the level to bring electri

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of poverty and i mean. corruption fragile states and bad leaders and north unjust trade relations underworld working two to raj each era man a development economist at the european school of management and technology all in us and seen also in berlin and raji argues that trade is necessary for prosperity but it is not always just we ignore the losers at our peril. i would like to begin with you as we've just heard the richest one percent of humanity owns more than the rest put together it's a bewildering figure it's almost unbearable but we do bear it how come how come how how come we are so indifferent. i not entirely sure i agree that we are in different way here that statistic and many if not most listeners these shocking reality sucking realities and we are indifferent to the extent that we're clearly not doing enough to do something about them the question really is not that people in general aren't different but that the people that are in power in terms of policy making are not doing the necessarily the right types of things in order to rectify that that imbalance and alan poses just we have to take another figure similar to the one i just quoted eight men on the same wealth as the three po