the world bank is supporting the upgrade to the tune of some three million euros it includes an exhibition on wildlife in the sahara. and the budget when some animals here are native to the duma park such as the north african a rare bird that's been the subject of research here. yeah yeah we usually patrols the national park in his car for reasons safety. the park which spans eight thousand hectors is home to a desert head sharks desert monitors is that of an extremely poisonous egyptian cobra famous for its alleged role in cleopatra's suicide. and despite the arid conditions there is also a wide range of vegetation. and it's very fertile it has a rich variety of trees and if the wildlife is suffering from any kind of shortage we can always make up for it. the ranger has been working with the local wildlife for so long that he react instinctively to their needs. i love all the animals here . especially the ones i've helped to rear in the last sixteen years. of. being aggressive. but i still like. they have died out here by the late nineteenth century. but now they're back. when. one threat

according to the world bank less than a third of the people of tanzania have access to electricity in fact only ten percent are connected to the grid the country is trying to tap into new energy sources including a plan when fab when he's over in years before it's completed for now people have to come up with their own ideas and solutions to the energy problem well we made an inventor of time in more fungal but trying to year old build wind turbines and uses a party to generate to pump water. to me mickey phone who is a man with a mission they engineered has already built ten wind generators with his partners two years ago they founded the company team success at the beginning they started welding for other companies but soon realized that they could build windmills themselves most of the staff comes from remote regions in tanzania electricity and water are hard to come by not even a flood of thousands onions have access to electrical power. to see by the hotel on a child a mortal or two but you have received as young people in our villages we faced a challenge of drilling and getting

used to work at the world bank. did grad school up the road at american university. did my ph.d up here, worked in the world bank in the poverty section and so civilization, i read last year, i think i was on with c-span, by neil ferguson, and civilization gets you into the next chunk of books, i like to share with every student, chinese students in -- at georgetown, all studying law, from china, and they came in the office and said what do you recommend that i read? i said when it comes to our service -- i taught this book for 20. >> short history of ethics by alister mcintyre. notre dame press. and starts off and concludes on one question -- base quick question,erted with air to thele and plato, and -- aristotle, what is a good life? and so the western tradition has -- to answer the question you choose -- the judeo-chin and greek reason, put if you go back the toe the greeks where the starts they decide not always he the conception of the good you agree with. read the first few chapters. if you go back to illad and the odyssey and homer, they're view of the good, y

claimed it was violently displaced from its land by a palm oil company financed by the world bank. i went to a region in honduras where there was a land conflict between peasants and big agriculture companies with two hunter and reporters including one who is ici j member in hunter us. soon after we got there i met with the commander of a brutal military unit who was involved in the palm oil companies and evictions of farmers. we had never met before but almost the first thing the commander told me was he knew where i was going and he accurately named the community that was next on my travel itinerary. when i asked how he knew that he smiled and said i am a military man. even said he had advance notice that peasants would stage an armed uprising on my arrival to gain international attention and that he had sent his troops to their village and couldn't guarantee my safety if i went there. we consulted the leaders of the peasant community and they swore they weren't planning any violence and this was psychological warfare on the part of the commander. we saw no evidence to doubt that

we also do projects like evicted and abandoned which was a global investigation of the world bank that revealed that almost 3.5 million people were physically or economically displaced over a decade by world bank funded development projects. the worldwide climate for journalism right now is characterized by unprecedented animosity and hatred toward journalists. that is the finding of the 2018 reporters without borders world press freedom index. they found that decline is driven by changes in how the press is treated in democracys, and in former democracys in which democracy is declining. we've already seen two instances like that this year affecting i.c.i.j. members in fallen democracys. our member joseph policek fled venezuela earlier this year to reveal corruption in a government food aid program for the poor. our member in turkey was just sued by close allies of the president of turkey including his son-in-law for revealing their offshore business holdings in "the paradise papers." i'll talk today about two cases of reporting in hostile political climate. i'll try to draw some lesso

going and to get around and talk about this and the success that -- that this model has because the world bankied 500 million people around the world who could be reached with this model. that is a real chunk of the problem right there that can be -- that can be fixed if woo c we can get the capital into the right places. i wonder what you think when we introduce this segment we talk about protesting iran and chronic drought in afghanistan that could get worse. we talked about cape town, south africa where people are lining up in this tourist city just to get water. in the united states, you see in the epa there are big crises with protections for clean water being rolled back under the current administration and there are those who believe that the water crisis could be the progenitor even more for conflict and war and the like. i wonder your reflections on the bigger issue of water. >> as you said, this is a massive geopolitical issue and the poorest of the poor are always affected the most by these things. so if you -- if you imagine, you know, you extrapolate that out to the next 20 to the

to have this process work in such a way that the major banks of the world can all benefit from having the money rendered cheap and having these subsidies and central banks create because if it is just the kind that helps big u.s. banks the u.s. banks and the fall of 2008 and the spring of 2009 and going onward it wouldn't have been enough to have our interest rates rendered 0% so they are receiving money and receiving interest from the bond they are getting from the treasury department and receiving the subsidy of the total $4.5 trillion to continue to do what they were doing. that actually was not enough philosophically or ideologically it wasn't enough financially so what they had to do the beginning of the crisis is an sure ensure that the other major central banks particularly in the g7 could be on the same page and as a result they ultimately have to get on the same page and render 0% were negative and also engage in this quantitative easing process because producing them wasn't enough. they have to create all this money and take bonds out of the market to reduce the rate

purchasing power parity, that's what the world bank and international comparisons use and economistss the best comparison. they surpassed us in gdp, not gdp per capita, there's a difference there. but folks can read the book and that i tagged one other, you get little sense of the thesis of the book. in this chart he's got about 16 Ã20 periods in history where you have dominant power and rising power. the analogy right now u.s. is the dominant power in the world without question, china is on the rise. in the book, two thirds of the case is the rising power goes to war against the dominant power. in about four or five cases there is no war. so that's the title. destined for war? we will see. hopefully not but the empirical record wakes you up a little bit. so then he recommended, you can go youtube him, he's at harvard kennedy school, head of the school.he had neil ferguson and other historians on the panel with them. makes for a very interesting google.he recognized and recommended Ãbforeign policy more applied view of that thesis. this is a little more dated but goes case studies of

japan and germany this is something that the world bank group disputes disputes those estimates that fossil fuels are blamed for global warming and last year the g twenty countries face accusations of hypocrisy for talking tough on global warming but providing four times more public finance for fossil fuels than for renewables or to talk more about this we can bring in alex ducasse now from oil change international he's the director of the stop funding fossil fuels program there thank you very much for joining us mr ducasse let me begin by asking you thank you why shouldn't africa take advantage of the resources it has including fossil fuels. i think it's really a decision that's in many ways up to african governments and the people that they represent about what the energy future is ought to be on the continent but i think the issue that our report highlights is that we're talking about a lot of international public money so government backed taxpayer money flowing into africa to support energy development and what we're seeing there from this relatively scarce public finance t

we have strict rules on those issues, like the world bank or the asian development bank and we have aake sure that we understand what is the sustainability, how can a project be repaid before we embark on financing? that ensures that over the years, as we build up our project portfolio in many countries, that it project portfolio in many countries, thatitis project portfolio in many countries, that it is financially sustainable and we know the money that has come from our member countries will be repaid in the end. now, tuk tuk's have long been a feature of the cambodian capital's congested roads. they are locally produced, these once beloved by locals and tourists alike, but recently felt the pinch of condition as customers seek out more important rituals that is right hailing apps. nick looks at what is behind the demise of this transport and the rapid rise of a young contender. there is a new game in town. young, colourful, speedy and you see them just about everywhere in phnom penh. but all is not well on the capital's increasingly crowded streets, where ageing motor taxis, locall

euros a year in tariffs alone that's twice as much as ukraine hopes to borrow this year from the world bank i.m.f. and e.u. combined. facebook has set its sights on a new set of data the wall street journal reports that the social network asked several large u.s. banks to shed detail financial information about their cost less request is likely to get part of its efforts to deep end user engagement and off a new services information request that is supposed to have included transactions and account balances. lost in business missy. on freedom and hope. where i come from the region is rich in history and style and talents but so poor in education opportunity and freedom this makes it specially difficult for independent journalists i see many of the younger promising journalists who are now making names for themselves all over the. song live good along the way some might follow some with continue. their experience of freedom a sense is life experience of the day you can visit but your call comes back from. mining your forgotten i work at you know because. we make up oh but we want tons of cof

ground in a country which is full of problems economy in the bad shape you know we have to go to the world bank and i.m.f. to get expansion loans and other things so we don't have a perspective of what imran khan can achieve the promise of a lot and one which is invalid that the being you know well meaning person it should achieve whatever he has said at least if it is even fifty percent of what is promised it will be a miracle. day where i see you want to say something but i want to ask you because there's been a lot of doubt around or questions let's say rather around the relationships the relationship between iran han and the military and how independence he can really be for example when it comes to he said that even get takes one step he was take two steps but he has to face that reality of a ministry who probably prefers the status quo which is no peace no war with india does he will they allow him to change that. i think anyone who knows him around first knows that if there's anyone who is independent minded in pakistan amongst our political leadership it's him but on tom i also think th

euros in tariffs alone that's twice as much money as the country hopes to borrow this year from the world bank i.m.f. and the e.u. combined the report describes how importers and customs officials falsified customs declarations at the country's ports to save on fees it says police and prosecutors involved. china says it's prepared for a long trade war with the u.s. the statement comes after a series of tweets from president donald trump praising the effects of trite tires is followed beijing's publication of a new list of retaliatory tariffs on u.s. products that came in response to washington's threats to impose new duties on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports of chinese state media to trump calling tariffs extortion. focus on asia. to be paying off the london based bank says pretax first half profits rose four point six percent to seven point two billion dollars last year as you see. concentrated more intensely on china and southeast asia said it i am to be the main global lender behind china's infrastructure projects across asia and africa h.s.b.c. is europe's biggest bank

it could prove challenging india is one of the heart of places to do business according to the world bank and not every multinational has been successful at adapting goods or services. so before entering the indian market i only resold its product line as our correspondence on how far the car reports was before the store opened employees visited about a posin homes in indian cities to try and understand how people live live here and what they need and the product lineup really reflects that you know for instance ikea has introduced more color in its products introduced high on the mattresses it's and introduced dhaka so fabrics because there's a lot of dirt and dust in india it's also come up with alternatives to lead them because the cult is a real shift of india and i think most importantly ikea has really kept in mind that india you know with its abundant supply of cheap labor really has a kind of do it for me culture and other that and do it for sales and and so i can as a full in-house team off people to help customers actually assemble the french. you know all other cultures and i f

euros a year in tariffs alone that's twice as much as ukraine hopes to borrow this year from the world bank i.m.f. and e.u. combined. facebook has set its sights on a new set of data the wall street journal reports that the social network cost several large u.s. banks to shed detailed financial information about their cost let's go qwest is likely to be part of its efforts to go deep end user engagement and also new services information requests that is supposed to have included transactions and account balances. lost in business with. me take it personally. with all the wonderful people in stories that make the game so special. for all true for. more than football longline climate change. waste. isn't it time for good news eco africa people and projects that are our changing. environment for the better it's up to us to make a difference let's inspire each other. to an environment magazine. d.w. . time for an upgrade. how about furniture that grows all buying. a house with no roof. poor design highlights you can make yourself. in steps in tricks that will turn your home to something special

large hydro which we don't count as sort of green energy and that's actually you mentioned that the world bank group disputes our estimates that's one of the areas of difference that we have with them we count that as other instead of green energy because of its social and environmental impacts but there is some finance going to renewable energy as well to solar and wind and our our emphasis is that you know we look at the evidence and the analysis by the international energy agency and we see that if we want to achieve universal access to electricity for the hundreds of millions of people in africa who currently are without electricity it's going to require more investments in renewable energy i mean you mentioned access to the great some places aren't yet connected to the great so should we be telling countries how to get online what about using fossil fuels as a stopgap. yeah i think it's up to the governments themselves and the people of african countries to make decisions on their energy sources and what kinds of projects they want to invest in but i think that the evidence shows that on

euros a year in tariffs alone that's twice as much as ukraine hopes to borrow this year from the world bank i.m.f. and e.u. combined. journalist david stern joins us from kiev david just how hard a job is a proving to corruption in ukraine well it's a huge problem of course anecdotally anecdotally i've heard of the last two years the problem is actually gotten worse there seems to be corruption throughout the society and as you heard from that report now of course corruption is a problem throughout the entire former soviet union so it's really a post soviet problem but as we heard from the report ukraine had a revolution four years ago and so expectations here are much higher there is the expectation that after the revolution this would be problem number one that they would tackle but at the science right now you have it throughout education health care the courts and as we heard the. customs so really it's the main issue right now in ukraine besides the war what are officials actually doing the ones who are corrupt that is. well the it should be said that ukraine this government has actual

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than half of the population lives in poverty on less than one euro a day that's according to the world bank and made rampant corruption much of the oil revenue is siphoned off by the country's elite police checkpoints and ubiquitous instead of in hansing security and containing the islamist group boko haram offices often demand bribes. those unwilling to pay a forced to wait for hours. the police connect money at every checkpoint twenty five cents each time for action of the big issue is is a huge word out that's. the police even when you do want to give them money like the bus drivers to do it as good as is their right. president mohammed do bihari was elected in two thousand and fifteen on a promise to tackle corruption some politicians and officials were arrested but there was little change transparency international says nigeria is still one of the world's most corrupt countries it ranks one hundred forty eight out of one hundred eighty countries on the group's corruption perceptions index. column capper nick the american football player that started the take a need protest in the n.f.l

heavily on secondary sources one of our contractors studies was literally cut and pasted from a world bank report but i just happened to have read the week before even the fart was the same long term strategy group and the pentagon both denying that clinton's involvement had anything to do with the contracts the same people in the pentagon who compensated how the group had to have been just clearances and the pay reduced to nothing months after his complaints citing official reasons that have nothing to do with the whistleblower your loving ger is doubtless his downfall is retrieve buescher for crossing the wrong people have to think about what actually happens to whistleblowers in the us because they've had a really rough time those coming out of the intelligence agencies over the last decade and the americans say they have this procedure where whistleblowers can convey a second sentence and they will be properly addressed and yet we see time and time again that they're not so i think we need also to consider what might be the best part for whistleblowers to have confidence that if they h

the world bank the un world all these things but now they're all being challenged by trump and we're entering into a period of to globalization which would mean higher prices inflation across the board and if wages follow suit then there will be peace in the valley if wages don't follow there will be lots of problems ok so we're going to tie it those together into other segments here where they talk to some of the guys from the steel companies that are winning. trump impose twenty five percent steel tariffs that has seen the price of steel in the united states soar by forty one percent tire the benchmark price of u.s. steel has forty one percent higher and nine hundred seventeen dollars per short ton so nucor is seizing on the amount momentum however a new core i said is gaining they their stock prices soaring their profits are soaring and what are they doing well they're seizing on the momentum to plow one billion dollars back in two. it's business a huge increase that will mostly go towards expansion quote what will happen to our great country if we continue to operate with a massi

banks. under the guise that it was the economy of the world that they were trying to say. ll out there. it is the layer now as well as the major financial markets what is it really allowed to happen. it allows banks to say right, were going to know lend this money cheaply. let's lend it out to companies and people and so forth. and what we effectively take in. and they keep doing and doing and doing. as a result of that. the value of bonds is higher because of the relationship and prices. and then stocks go up. give extra money that corporations had either gotten because they borrowed it so cheaply or because they have all of this extra cash for the banks. and where you take it. you don't take into government bonds. their pain like nothing. you put it into riskier assets. if not helping. in a lot of ways it has become fragmented between the individual and the companies that have been recipients of this process and ones that haven't. it doesn't matter what's one political location is. the reality as it has gone to a system of people that were involved in institutions to begi

according to the world bank, honduras is already the most unequal country in latin america. as corrupt businessmen. i want the government to talk to me and have the opportunity to address these concerns. but days go by, and interview after interview is cancelled. i really don't understand. i mean, this is a very big dealfor honduras. they're saying it's a big deal, it's supposed to be one of the big initiatives that's going to help honduras develop and still, people are really nervous to talk about it. finally, on our last night, the minister for economic development agrees to meet with me. he promises it will be up to local communities to decide if they want to set up these special zones in their territory. so i head to the far south of the country to speak with someone wrestling with this very question. this is amapala, a tiny island that was once a bustling port and the country's capital. but its glory days are long gone. its 14,000 residents scrape by eking a wage from fishing. the plan is to turn all of this into a cutting—edge city and megaport. mayor alberto cruz has

the world bank the un world all these things but now they're all being challenged by trump and we're entering into a period of to globalization which would mean higher prices inflation across the board and if wages follow suit then there will be peace in the valley if wages don't follow there will be lots of problems ok so we're going to tie it those together into other segments here where they talk to some of the guys from the steel companies that are winning. trump impose twenty five percent steel tariffs that has seen the price of steel in the united states soar by forty one percent tire the benchmark price of u.s. steel has assumed forty one percent higher and nine hundred seventeen dollars per short ton so nucor is seizing on the amount momentum however a new core i said is gaining they their stock prices soaring their profits are soaring and what are they doing well they're seizing on the momentum to plow one billion dollars back in two. it's business a huge increase that will mostly go towards expansion quote what will happen to our great country if we continue to operate with

the united states decides what sanctions on those which control the vast majority of the banking transactions world. turkey doesn't stand a chance now you can get some direct investment from qatar it's being get some direct investment from other sovereigns but again your banking system is beholden rely and also the and on american watching american is even a broken clock is right twice a day american president president trump would always falls flaws and problems and stability he's right about this case president carter gone it's checkers act to correct those maneuvers needs to come back to the western allies turkey sovereign has kept turkey prosperous a lot kept turkey away from a lot of threats facing east and north and east to palestinian protesters have been killed and two hundred seventy people have been wounded in demonstrations to the gaza israel border fence palestinians have been staging protests every frighting since march the demanding a right to return to ancestral lands that they say their families were forced to leave they also want an end to the israeli blockade of the gaza strip. th

the world bank the un world all these things but now they're all being challenged by trump and we're entering into a period of to globalization which would mean higher prices inflation across the board and if wages follow suit then there will be peace in the valley if wages don't follow there will be lots of problems ok so we're going to tie it those together into other segments here where they talk to some of the guys from the steel companies that are winning. trump impose twenty five percent steel tariffs that has seen the price of steel in the united states soar by forty one percent tire the benchmark price of u.s. steel has a forty one percent higher and to nine hundred seventeen dollars per short ton so nucor is seizing on the amount momentum however a new core i said is gaining they their stock prices soaring their profits are soaring and what are they doing well they're seizing on the momentum to plow one billion dollars back in two. it's business a huge increase that will mostly go towards expansion quote what will happen to our great country if we continue to operate with a

he's consulted for a number of governments and international organizations including the un the world bank and the o.e.c.d. he joins us from just outside boston a welcome to you at this president trump actually have the power to withdraw the u.s. from the dubby teja. we're really not certain i think the best answer to that question is that he does not. commerce clause of the united states constitution gives the power to regulate commerce to our congress and that our congress has not delegated the power to regulate in the form of withdrawing from the world trade organization to the president and so that he does not have that power so if he could get it through congress what difference what what effect would american withdrawal from the w t o have on world trade. well presumably president trump would feel even more free which would be a lot more free than he currently feels to impose tariffs as he wishes without regards to the united states' commitments and as i suggest he's already done that to a large extent under the national security pretext of our statutes and also of an exception in la

the united states decides what sanctions and those which control the vast majority of the banking transactions world. turkey doesn't stand a chance now you can get some direct investment from qatar it's being get some direct investment from other sovereigns but again your banking system is beholden rely and also the and on american watching american institutions even a broken clock is right twice a day american president president trump would always falls flaws and problems its ability is right about this case present on its checkers acts is a correct as maneuvers need to come back to the western allies the step turkey sovereign has kept turkey prosperous a lot kept turkey away from a lot of threats facing east and north. the united states has is casting two hundred thirty million dollars allocated for the cycle of stabilization programs in syria it says the funding will only be provided if syria engages in a credible peace process led by the un is being seen as a move to extricate the u.s. from the conflict as i what has correspondent kimberly how can our parts. it's yet another signal of the tribe

the united states decides what sanctions and those which control the vast majority of the banking transactions world. turkey doesn't stand a chance now you can get some direct investment from qatar it's being get some direct investment from other sovereigns but again your banking system is beholden rely and also that and then on american watching american institutions even a broken clock is right twice a day american president president trump with all his faults flaws and problems and stability he's right about this case present on its checkers that there's a correctness maneuvers need to come back to the watchtower allies this year turkey sobber it's kept turkey prosperous a lot kept turkey away from a lot of threats facing east and north let's move on to other news now the united nations has published a report listing for proposals for increasing protections for palestinian civilians and this commission to look into ways to protect civilians in gaza and the palestinian territories from excessive and discriminate force by the israeli and the tray let's get more on the smell cost ponit rosslyn joini

the world bank for ten years.eed. this was an initial plan that was structured very much asa plan that was structured very much as a crisis management due to the fa ct as a crisis management due to the fact that greece have zero money to pay its creditors and that presented itself in the end of 2009, so the panic created some sort of an initial bailout plan that would give greece enough liquidity to be able to pay its creditors and believe it or not, out of the 250 billion we have received, only 25 million have remained in the country. the remaining has actually gone by passed through athens. 50 it wasn't really your standard struck —— structural adjustment loan. it concentrates and focuses on the problem of the country, what has been the correct diagnosis, why the country has come to the crisis. in our case country has come to the crisis. in our case it is low productivity, overregulation and over bureaucracy so none of this was resolved. gdp is down, employment is down. what happens now that greece is out of the

the united states decides what sanctions on those which control the vast majority of the banking transactions world. turkey doesn't stand a chance now you can get some direct investment from qatar it's being get some direct investment from other sovereigns but again your banking system is beholden rely and also that and then on american watching american institutions even a broken clock is right twice a day american president president trump would always falls flaws and problems that sibylla t. s. he's right about this case present on its checkers act it's a correct as maneuvers need to come back to the western allies that it's kept turkey sovereign has kept turkey prosperous a lot kept turkey away from a lot of threats facing east and north venezuela's president has confirmed that his government is making its cryptocurrency an official form of payment alongside the believer the distil cash is called the pet trade and it's backed by venezuela's crude all reserves which is the largest in the won't president to do it as government has also raised wages for the fifth time this year the south american

the world bank was over 11,000 employees and the wto with 600 staff. for a major international organization, a pretty lean operation. the wto, of these three, is the smallest in size and budget. obviously, a fairly wide command over international trade and then 164 countries, virtually every country that is a trading national -- nation is a member of the wto. hat is the wto as an institution? fundamentally, a contract arrangement where all members are committing to provide certain levels of access to their market. they are providing specific rules related to how we will engage in trade and goods and services, they are agreeing to intellectual property standards and a lot of other product standards. ow are we going to deal with whether or not we traded in beef if the beef has been grown with hormones? how will we deal with whether you can trade in apples if them apples might have fungus or bugs that the spread to the rest of the world. lots of standards around goods, services, intellectual property and other technical standards. other characteristics of