i earlier spoke to a singapore manager for ifc.sectors for attractive investment. renewable energy, food solar energy, and battery storage. urban transport as well, water, and urban waste management. we think asia should be at the forefront of this, in terms of total demand and technology innovation. what is the interest of the private sector in those seven sectors? they are good investment opportunities. look at last year, taking asia, for example. look at china and india to be they account for half of the global energy capacity. china alone put into the five gigawatts of solar, 3a gigawatts of wind. —— 35. that was one third of global investment. since coming to power, india's prime minister has been trying to attract businesses from around the world to set up shop. narendra modi now has a reason to celebrate. a bank report says it is much easier to do business there. they have jumped 30 places in the annual survey looking at how easy it is to do business. we have more from delhi. make in india, a message from narendra modi and o

the international finance corporation, or ifc, invests in the private sector in developing countries. ifc makes equity investments in companies, uses tools such as first loss guarantees, to rerisk sectors and create markets to bring in other private sector investment. the first loan provided was to the german company seamans that wanted to invest in brazil when brazil was truly a frontier market. the multi lateral investment guarantee agency helps to derisk projects, sectors and countries by providing political risk insurance and credit enhancement. it actually invented political risk insurance. if a company wants to invest in a country, wants to purchase a company, for example, and they're worried about bad things happening like, for example, a change of regime and the regime nationalizes, that that company -- you can buy insurance to protect you against that possibility. we invented it. now there are many, many companies that do it. it's sometimes the critical link to making a company invest or not invest. finally, we have our international center for the settlement of investment di

. >> together they're headed to the 2017 ifc world cup where justin will climb against other visuallympetitors. >> on his first assent he suffered a major setback. his first climb was disqualified. >> but he regained ground on the second climb. qualified for the finals. >> good job. >> the main event, justin challenged for the top spot. coming in just short of finishing first. >> ladies and gentlemen, big round of applause for justin. [ applause ] >> i had no idea i was going to do this well. all i wanted to do was make finals and getting second place for my first world cup is really cool. >> sports and salvation. that's next. patrick woke up with back pain. but he has work to do. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. how much money do you think you'll need in retirement? then we found out how many years that money would last them. how long do you think we'll keep -- oooooohhh! you stopped! you're gonna leave me back here at year 9?

the first loan ever provided by ifc was to the german company who wanted to invest in resilient at time when brazil was truly a frontier market. we have another agency, the multilateral verity agency that helps the rest project sectors in entire countries by providing political risk insurance and enhancement. they actually invented political risk insurance. if a company wants to invest in a country, once to purchase a company and they are worried about bad things happening like a change in regime and the regime nationalizes that company, you can buy insurance to protect you against that prop -- possibility. there are many companies that do it and it is sometimes the critical link to making a company invest or not invest. we have our international center for the settlement of investment disputes which facilitates arbitration between international investors. it has helped settle many disputes around the world, including several related to nafta. group staffank walking our building, they pass a large sign that reads, our dream is a world free of poverty. that was put up my microcassette --

ifc supported a program that made it affordable to farmer co-ops for new trucks and tractors. today more than 120,000 farmers have received training. more than 66,000 farmers in 50 co-ops participated in the credit programs. cargo now is a more dependable supply of cocoa. they are working on another joint venture train more than 50,000 farmers in cameroon. keeping markets open and creating new ones requires stability. we are focusing more of our work in areas of fragility, conflict and violence. this is critical to our goal of ending poverty. if current trends continue and instability continues, we estimate by 2030, almost 50% of the extreme poor will be living in fragile and conflict affected states. we created a private sector window for the poorest countries which will bring more investment to countries affected by fragility and conflict. we are working with partners like the united nations to prevent conflict in countries at risk of instability. in addition to the lives saved, if we can prevent conflict in countries that bear the direct cost, casualties and losses to econo

aller three, is showing to multinationals and i have sees doand ifc's that we can extremely well whentalking about giant discoveries, to be developed and come into the stream to be competitive in a short period of time. >> what interest are using from international oil companies? it seems like some countries are cutting back a little bit at a time of low prices, including .irgas -- their gas >> what we have seen lately, and i would have to take again the example, when we stopped the development of the seed -- the feed. we were joined by bp and others. this meant interest. potential newcomers. coming for the first time in the oil and gas industry in egypt. this shows international desire, and appetite to come. we are to have our main and important strategic players in egypt. also a, newcomers are success for egyptian oil and gas. the trust and confidence they have seen in the system. >> any potential newcomers we don't know about yet? >> for the time being, no, but we are not stopping from trying to attract more newcomers and new ioc's. we want to have our plateful of big and important

. >> reporter: together they're heading to the ifc world cup where justin will climb against other visually impaired competitors. on his first ascent justin suffered a major setback. >> you're on a bolt. >> reporter: by stepping on a bolt that wasn't a part of the course. his first climb was disqualified. >> it's just no go. >> sorry. but he regained ground on the second climb. and qualified for the finals. >> good job. >> reporter: in the main event justin challenged for the top spot coming in just short of finishing first. >> ladies and gentlemen, a big round of applause. from the usa. >> i had no idea i was going to do this well. all i wanted to do was make finals and getting second place for my first world cup is really cool. patrick woke up with back pain. but he has work to do. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. psoriatic arthritis tries to get in my way? ♪ watch me. ♪ i've tried lots of things for my joint pain. now? watch me. ♪

decades, the international community has contributed $19 billion to capitalize our middle income fund and ifc. since 1945, the united states has contributed $2.5 billion. we have been able to take that $19 billion in overall investment to fund more than $900 million. we are getting close to $1 trillion in loans and financing in developing countries. we have also provided -- put $15 billion in reserve and transferred $28 billion to either come our fund for the port. we support our own fund for the poorest. for every dollar we invest, we have an impact that his tens and even hundreds of times more powerful than if they put their money directly in the form of grants into budgets of developing countries. for most of my adult life, i have worked to provide health care for people in some of the poorest countries in the world. the organization i cofounded, partners and health, has worked for three decades around a principal we call making a preferential option for the poor, borrowing from latin american catholic theology. an option for the poor requires us to work to ensure that everyone in our comm

leadership to get their feedback on the legislative platform so there wasn't a presentation at the ifc, so we had an opportunity to get feedback from department leaders and then we're here to get your approval on legislative platform, it will be reviewed by the mayor's office and hopefully in december adopted by the state legislative committee. just to talk about what's in the platform, what's new, this slide shows the key issue ins the legislative platform and i'm not going to go through all of it, there is an attachment in your memo, just to talk about this year's additions, so starting off with affordable housing, homeless and supportive housing, we made some amendments looking to increase funding and coordination to address needs of people who are currently homeless, also to better support healthy housing, particularly for low-income people. moving on to behavioral health, we added an amendment about supporting funding for adolescent mental health and making sure that there were better services and more models of care for adolescents. going on to restorative justice and improved he