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united states and around the world. im fareed zakaria. today on the program, vladamir putin says the world faces the most dangerous decade since world war ii. will he make it more dangerous by using nuclear weapons? can he compromise and make a deal? i will ask boris bondarev, one of the highest level defectors from putins own government. then -- britain has its third prime minister in less than two months. we will tell you what you need to know about rishi sunak and his plans. >> tr...

Because we, in this country, if you look at measures compared with germany, france, a whole host of european competitors, we are a very unproductive, inefficient economy. is it that the government has to take a very proactive role to investment to get that productivity higher? yeah, well, ive always argued that you need to have the government playing an important role, but the government needs to actually at the same time play a role that incentivises, encourages the private sector. so its about...

How do you think government best boosts productivity, economic efficiency? because we, in this country, if you look at measures compared with germany, france, a whole host of european competitors, we are a very unproductive, inefficient economy. is it that the government has to take a very proactive role to investment to get that productivity higher? yeah, well, ive always argued that you need to have the government playing an important role, but the government needs to actually at the same time...

Dramatically on xis watch, and will likely grow by low single digits this year. in fact, in a striking piece of analysis, the financial times shows chinas economy is likely to grow at 2.5% in the coming decades. commentators thought the chinese economy would overtake the u.s. by 2020. now it seems unlikely that will occur until 2060, if it ever does. what happened? well, there are basically two ways that economies grow. adding more workers and pushing productivity higher. meaning each worker pro...

In fact, in a striking piece of analysis, its written in the financial times that chinas economy is likely to grow at a measly 2.5% in the coming decades. he notes that commentators thought china would overtake the u.s. economy by 2020. now it seems unlikely that would occur until 2060, if it ever does. what happened? well, there are basically two ways economies grow. adding more workers and pushing productivity higher, meaning each worker produces more goods and services. as far as total worker...