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but let's be honest. these are challenging times. the lingering effects of the weak economy, the financial instability, the euro crisis, high unemployment, slow economic growth, plus a highly partisan political environment in some countries and elections, including in this country, make this year a particularly challenging time to achieve major breakthroughs on just about any international development issue. little appetite exists in some donor nations, perhaps many donor nations, to ask taxpayers to fund a large-scale global effort, and at the same time nations are struggling to mak...

anytime. > the center nor global development hosted a summit last week paper mong the speakers, former senator tim wirth and william riley, head of the environment protection agency under the first president bush. this is almost two hours. good morning, ladies and gentlemen. i'm nancy birdsall, a warm welcome to all of you. i'm the president of the center for global development. we're very pleased to have all of you here. i know that for many of you you're here because of rio plus 20. our point today. what can be done? this is a huge opportunity for the global community to worry ov...

caught up with that, or people haven't really become aware of how significantly different, you know, we are today than we were three years ago. >> right, right, with the natural gas. okay, let's have another round, quickly. please, yes. there. we only have this one -- and yes, i remember you in the back. okay. you'll be next. >> thank you. ed barry with the sustainable world initiative. food security is important. energy security for all, you know, ending poverty, building infrastructure for health, education, and good governance, those are all good things. those are things we want. ...

bank much new new york. the group response for monetary policy. secretary geithner has a long career at treasury, but also worked at the world bank -- sorry at the imf directing the policy development and review department. he has strong international and national experience bringing it together. secretary geithner studied international economics in east asia at dartmouth. the event will take place in the form of a conversation with david ignatius from "the washington post" whom many of you you know writes twice a week and contributes to columns and blogs. david has also written eigh...

>> up next on on booktv encore booknotes. liz carpenter discusses her book, "unplanned parenthood" the confessions of a seventysomething surrogate mother in 1994. the book focuses on her experiences raising her three teenage nieces and nephews at the age of 79. she also discusses her years in the white house working as press secretary for lady bird johnson. this is about an hour. c-span: liz carpenter, you say early in your book that, "by heritage and by profession, i am a storyteller." where did you learn that? >> guest: i think growing up. i grew up in rural texas. rural areas seem...