And the current narrative is all about the rise of China and the decline of the United States.

JA Yeah, this is a great case, you know.

Goldman Sachs projected 2027.

So what you see, that precipice, that high precipice with the valley, is the 2008 financial crisis.

That's the short term. That's the flame part.

sticks and carrots.

227 billion is what Africa owes.

What I'm going to try and do is to give some pointers to what I think is the landscape on the other side of the crisis, what things we should be looking out for and how we can actually use the crisis.

The savings ratio, net savings, were below zero in the middle of 2008, just before the crash.

Normally, it's just commercial banks.

I think we are setting ourselves up for a kind of disaster

Hey, we helped people getout of financial difficulty.

And that, that maneuver called crisis mapping, was kicked off in Kenya in January of 2008.

But there's another group of people who were more than offsetting that by taking credit.

But today I'm going to talk about access to food, because actually this year and last year and during the 2008 food crisis, there was enough food on Earth for everyone to have 2,700 kilocalories.

We face huge issues as a world the financial crisis, global warming and this growing sense of fear and otherness.

The rise and fall of prices caused a financial crisis.

So, Japan had a fiscal real estate crisis back in the late '80s.

This was the last 15 years before the crash, and you can see there, consumer debt rose dramatically.

So it's midlife crisis. No, he's just quiet.

And thatʼs why weʼve created Ushahidi. Ushahidi is the Swahili word meaning testimony or witness.

Goldman's making record profits, paying out huge bonuses.

And almost straightaway we actually run up against a couple of anomalies.

The first one is in the crisis itself.

It's not just competitive, it's also caring.

Take the last financial crisis after the Second World War.

We certainly can't trust the bankers, and we certainly can't trust the brokers.

For example, a number of respected economists did not expect the financial collapse of 2008.

So this is shortly after a lot of the craziness of the financial crisis was happening but it was still going on.

You're even prettier in person.

The economy still hasn't completely recovered from the financial crisis.

And no one wanted to say anything on the phone.

That's the financial crisis.

It does not eat nectar.

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We are standing in the middle of a time when great injustice is not touched.

That's the rate at which you don't have hyperinflation, but you're utilizing things quite well.

Have you ever tried to do a jigsaw puzzle but one of the pieces was missing?

We opened today.

And actually in the period through which we've been working over the last 18 years partly because of the financial crisis and a little bit of humility in the profession of economics actually people are engaging in this issue in all sorts of countries around the world.

That missing piece is money.

And it worked, or so I believed.

US household spends on electricity to light their homes.

This is a systemic risk, systemic shock.

Corporate borrowing from financial institutions is rising due to the low interest rate.