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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane. Daily

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Speaker 1: an important interview and important conversation with a friend of

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Speaker 1: this show, David mel Pass, of course, with more than

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Speaker 1: a decade of service to what we've done at Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Surveillance and wisdom and perspective, and now holding court at

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Speaker 1: the World Bank as their president. David, I know you

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Speaker 1: never thought you would see the challenges of this pandemic.

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Speaker 1: I talk of the pandemic partition of say American inequalities.

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Speaker 1: Tell us the World Banks pandemic partition. What does it

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Speaker 1: look like? Uh, it's it's the same or worse for

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Speaker 1: developing countries and for poor countries. That takes to the

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Speaker 1: inequality is two kind of different factors. One is poor

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Speaker 1: people are a are worst hit by the global recession,

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Speaker 1: the shutdowns UH and and the pandemic itself, so they

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Speaker 1: feel the brunt of that UH. And then the second

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Speaker 1: part is that the advanced economies have been doing stimulus

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Speaker 1: programs that cut that concentrate on people that already have assets.

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Speaker 1: That's the Central bank purchases, but it's also the fiscal

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Speaker 1: stimulus from the from the Treasury Department. David, the focus

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Speaker 1: of the World Bank for years has been on what

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Speaker 1: I would call a third world, a frontier economy. I

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Speaker 1: know those are not correct phrases. In two thousand twenty one,

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Speaker 1: one of the great issues we have is accountability of cases,

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Speaker 1: deaths and hospitalizations across Africa. Explain the pandemic for Africa

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Speaker 1: right now in the veracity of your data at the

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Speaker 1: World Bank, Uh, you know, this is a this is

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Speaker 1: a cloudy area, Tom. The the death statistics aren't aren't

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Speaker 1: that well kept and aren't that current, and so it's

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Speaker 1: hard to tell how hard COVID is hitting people in Africa.

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Speaker 1: The the original in the in the middle of there

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Speaker 1: was the sense that it wasn't hitting as hard. It's

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Speaker 1: different country by country. For example, South Africa has been

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Speaker 1: hard hit, but other countries seeming to be less so.

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Speaker 1: But now our sense is that it's that it's spreading

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Speaker 1: and hitting, hitting all countries. What we want to do

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Speaker 1: on vaccines, UH, is have vaccines available for everyone, including

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Speaker 1: and especially the poor. And so that's that's one of

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Speaker 1: the challenges to have systems that can actually deliver enough vaccines.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly where I wanted to go, especially given some

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Speaker 1: How worried are you about the time frame for distributing

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Speaker 1: the vaccine in the developing world? High Lisa? What what

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Speaker 1: the World Banker has done? We've we passed in October

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Speaker 1: twelve billion dollar package through the board UH, and that's

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Speaker 1: available and are the first step is to assess countries

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Speaker 1: the most. So that work is underway in a hundred

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Speaker 1: countries UH. And then the next step is actual contracts.

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Speaker 1: One of the challenges is to have a common contract

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Speaker 1: where people can UH, where people can see the the

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Speaker 1: UH the same terms and and actually operate on them UH.

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Speaker 1: And so we're working on that. And then another another

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Speaker 1: immediate problem is in dimnification. FISER has been hesitant to

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Speaker 1: we work with the countries to try to do that.

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Speaker 1: But I think also some of the other vaccine manufacturers

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Speaker 1: through subsidiaries. This is all something that we're exploring and

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Speaker 1: our goal. My goal is to have vaccines available for

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Speaker 1: people throughout the developing world based on what their countries decide.

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Speaker 1: We've got financing available, but that the countries need to

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Speaker 1: talk about how the programs that have salvaged the global

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Speaker 1: to do with the economies as well. How worried are

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Speaker 1: enough for many people's tastes. Uh, It's it's challenging to

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Speaker 1: provided public service to the nation working for President Trump.

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Speaker 1: I believe now there's going to be a new relationship

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Speaker 1: of your World Bank and President by and of course

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Speaker 1: do you adapt adjust or you're oblivious to a new

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Speaker 1: of climate change activities. For example, in the poorer nations

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Speaker 1: they hadn't been aggressive enough in your view with debt

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Speaker 1: David mel Pass folks as one of those famous charts

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Speaker 1: this is a court. You know. We have our new

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Speaker 1: Global Economic Prospects report that just came out yesterday, so

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Speaker 1: what what's the mechanism for that? You know? My view

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Speaker 1: is it is not money printing that they're doing. What

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Speaker 1: not inflationary. Uh. And the forecast that people have of

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Speaker 1: David mel Bess, thank you so much. He is President

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Speaker 1: of the World Bank. In this changing world inflation over

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Speaker 1: more fiscal stimulus and likely higher deficits as well, how

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Speaker 1: Here is the breaking news. On November twelve, the President

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Speaker 1: you like this. This is truly breaking news. What are

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Speaker 1: The threat here is of retaliation that you know, the

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously President Trump was kind of America first.

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Speaker 1: anything on a bipartisan basis. John Lieber, thank you so much. Greatly.

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Speaker 1: again through this pandemic as they should be. Dr Guess,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. My advice is steer clear of politics.

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Speaker 1: Today from Atlanta and Emory University, Jody Guests joins us

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Speaker 1: this morning. Thanks for listening to the Bloomberg Surveillance podcast.

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