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Climate, Biden, and signs of hope for 2021: World Bank's David Malpass
Climate, Biden, and Signs of Hope for 2021 | World Bank's David Malpass | GZERO World
January 20, 2021
We're only a few weeks into 2021 and that 'fresh new start' that so many had been hoping for at the end of 2020 has not exactly materialized. But what gives World Bank President David Malpass hope for the coming year? "The promise of humanity and of technology, people working together with communication, where they can share ideas. It allows an incredible advance for living standards." His wide-ranging conversation with Ian Bremmer was part of the latest episode of GZERO World.
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