you know can own the well so this is really a big issue for what the economy yes as an economist of course you think it done with a lot of images but you see your job if you want. for you know thank you i mean you know for me we spend a lot of our time dealing with the aftermath of natural disasters throughout asia. and one thing you find in going to all many of the sites in the aftermath of these disasters is that it s the poor there are the hardest because of geography that s where the poor tend to live in these areas but also because they have so few assets that they can use to help themselves recover so for me i think really in regions how difficult it is for poor people to recover from these natural disasters i mean do you see. international but your personal image of inequality. so i could certainly share yours from the many many communities around the world where we work where poverty is very visible than very abject but i try to go to
observed in the countries as they ve built out the internet backbone through the country there s more women that are joining to be p.r. industry because families that were reluctant to let their daughters move to urban centers now their daughters don t have to move to urban centers they don t have to move to know where that car. i don t fear in that kind of concern it s real they can stay in smaller you know not rule necessarily but smaller urban areas where they re nearer to a family where they re not they don t have to go very far so again i think it s just it s it s we don t have that infrastructure investment that goes along side and that rollout of internet connectivity that goes alongside these these these great new industries and new business since you know we re going to see that defied growing so just sort of think underscores the need for continued investment focus on the area i think we re going to focus on what we can do to overcome this inequality divide that is between th
waves are always children eighty percent are children and women because men are stronger around can run away faster so that s very much part of the reality but i think you know i d like to focus our attention on on how we in this region with its emphasis on education really put emphasis on on inequality and on on dignity and respect and not on discrimination because that is what will help these economies flowers grow faster and be more inclusive absolutely equality of opportunity is i think education is really important for equality in the opportunities it doesn t do you have to know you ve been a finance minister and there are those people who will argue that actually inequality is a policy decision and fiscal policy decision would you agree well this quite
obvious that you know the fiscal policy can play a role in addressing the issue of this inequality but i think the important question dear. actually even though we already implemented fiscal policy wide in the script writing i think the issue has to do about the implementation let me give an example we re talking about a location of the government spending on the social system the question is what kind of socialist system let me give an example about the case of indonesia trying to protect the poor by providing. a subsidy for fuel in fact the one who get a benefit of subsidy use middle and upper class not the poor people reply to proof i don t know about twenty percent of the budget for the into commission but in fact not much improvement in the quality so deciding the mechanism is very important what would you suggest what needs to be done instead of subsidies some people feel
working population can only do so much to solve inequality gender inequality economic inequality opportunity inequality that all nice to be addressed in transforming the educational system today because it will be too late if we don t attack this especially given the massive demographic boom that is actually being experienced. so the demographic boom can go both ways it can go as a bonus if you get the education right to be or it could be massive both political and social risk if it creates even a higher inequality because the most unhappy person is a college graduate who comes out and can t find opportunity that is winds countries begin to stabilize and so i think i think you know i m torn between the want of the medium term ones and the real long term educational initiatives that are no short of a herculean task because you ve got to transform the education system evolving it will