i'm visiting from liberia here.was between the british and the liberation movement. but in south africa, that issue of land has never been touched. i just want to know what you have as to how that may be involved in the future. guest: well, there is a project of sort of land rest tuition going on in south africa and there's a lot of criticism of it for being especially for being slow. you know, they keep missing targets and transfers aren't happening as quickly as they thought. but there are transfers of land happening in south africa as a way of addressing the kind of problem you're talking about. scott, the sort of bureau chief for all of africa, justin and writes for the christian science africa's main correspondent did a great piece about not just the transfer of title and land but also the transfer of knowledge, which is incredibly important when you're talking about a system like this. part of what we've seen as a tragedy in zimbabwe was a similar transfer system in which there is no transmission of knowledge.

paul river in present day liberia. as a temporary haven for returning slaves.d expecting them to set off in their native villages in the interior. but after three, four generations in america they didn't know where their native villages were so few actually moved into the interior. and the settlement eventually grew into a city that they named monrovia to honor the american president. unfortunately, the work of the colonization society started about 40 years too late. the economy of the south had converted from tobacco to cotton. tobacco plantations had depended on skilled hands to grow, harvest and treat the tender crops, which usually forced planters to foster worker contentment by providing adequate care for worker families including nonproductive children and the elderly and crippled. cotton changed all that. changed the economy and it changed slave existence dramatically. cotton fields required no skills. no skills to plant or harvest. they absorbed women, children, the elderly as long as they can stand, walk or crawl. cotton opened also agriculture to a n

liberia, yesterday we approved some lending again for iraq connected to several reforms.i. i dealt with central america at certain points in my lifeÑi fro diplomatic and trade. i would like to use some of the development and regional integration to support the central american process, food security. a lot of this lending, if you think of the countries that it's gone to and you think of u.s. interests, well, frankly, we have done a lot of lending to mexico. i think mexico's stability and growth is pretty darn important to the united states. colombia, egypt, indonesia, and what we're seeing it doesn't hurt u.s. companies. we have gotten a lot of support from the u.s. business community and put together letters of support for us on this issue. as i mentioned in the area of climate change, frankly, i think we have not only brought more people into this in the developing world, we could use theÑpi resources quite innovatively for clean technologies and for adaptation. we look forward to working with the bretton woods committee. you have been a great partner in the past. we ho

and yet the devil must have left liberia and taken up residence in congo.public of congo this summer, the contrasts were so overwhelmingly tragic. a country the size of western europe rich in minerals and natural resources where 5.4 million people have been killed in the most deadly conflict since world war ii. where 1,100 women and girls are raped every month. where the life expectancy is 46 and dropping. where poverty, starvation and all of the ills that stalk the human race are in abundance. when i traveled to goma, i saw in a single day the best and the worst of humanity. i met with women who had been savaged and brutalized physically and emotionally, victims of gender and sexual-based violence in a place where law, custom and even faith did little to protect them. but i also saw courageous women who, by faith, went back in to the bush to find those who, like them, had been violently attacked. i saw the doctors and the nurses who are helping to heal the wounds, and i saw so many who were there because their faith if led them to it. as we look at the wor

challenges of post conflict countries or ones that have suffered natural disasters, the afghanistans, the liberiasl problems beyond the special development discipline. and this year we'll try to bring together the state of knowledge on that. collective action issues, for example, global climate change where we have done -- i have been very impressed with the work kathy and her team, we have created these climate investment funds with contributions of $6.5 billion with some of the developed countries. so far with our commitments, we have been able to leverage these about 10 to one. so at a time that the developed countries are worrying about budget expenditures, i was, again, up on the hill yesterday and saying, look, we can multiply these 10 to one with other bank resources, 30% is the private sector. it's a power case. we have continued to focus heavily on the governance issues and the anti-corruption which are obviously fundamental to this, but going back to the point i mentioned about this recovery, recognizing this is not just a world developed in the poorest. it's a question of how do we get

and yet, the devil must have left liberia and taken up residence in congo.n i was in the democratic republic of congo this summer, the contrasts were so overwhelmingly tragic. a country the size of western europe, rich in minerals and natural resources, where 5.4 million people have been killed in the most deadly conflict since world war ii, where 1200 women and girls are raped every month, where the life expectancy is 46 and dropping, where poverty, starvation, and all of the ills that stock the human race are in abundance. when i travel to goma, i saw in a single day the best and worst of humanity. i met with women who had been savaged and brutalized, physically and emotionally, victims of gender and sexual based violence in a place where law, custom, and even fake did little to protect them. i also saw courageous women who by faith went back into the bush to find those who, like them, had been violently attacked. i saw the doctors and nurses who were helping to heal the wounds, and i saw so many who were there because their faith led them to it. as we loo