Video footage of Andhra Pradesh, India

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We are trying to follow Chinese model this is and this is being done by the the Tigers coming through audio and video also the best practices we are giving information.

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For our.

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Monthly and and this is going to all the.

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Local, permanent.

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Thank you.

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No, I, I, I especially women who got a lot of we have worked together with the department and we work together for the benefit of the village.

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Thank you.

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She's the serpent of that village.

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She's the head of that village.

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I'm on water scheme, drinking water scheme.

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So with their contribution plus the government money, they have taken up a scheme and then we will be going to see that scheme.

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Now I vacant secret about this and then from here we have the distribution.

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It is the the specificity of the SCC is that the people have contributed their the department is supporting them.

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Technically we have put them, put that money into the bank and then we have got some grant from the government all put the we have constructed this bank.

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You can ask themselves.

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How long is have you had this?

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Two months ago we have started this.

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How much will it add to your income?

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Do they know?

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This is the drinking water.

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Drinking water.

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Reduces the tragedies, reduce the tragedy and good quality water.

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Problem of Thank you very much.

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Thank you are.

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You sending your children to.

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The.

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School, he's in, 10th class, he's going.

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To the school.

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Who is the best?

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Is a boy who studies well?

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Is the leader of our class.

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I like this school.

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What grade is he in what What year is he in school?

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What are the subjects that you are ready?

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Yeah.

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What class?

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What?

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Tenant class he's in.

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Ten class.

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Now and what subject do you like today?

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English, English and Hindi.

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English and Hindi.

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He's in 10th class.

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He's going to a school nearby high school.

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Did your parents go to school?

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Glad that you're going.

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To school?

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What did they say about?

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They're happy that we are going to school.

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They make you work hard in.

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School, yeah, we are working hard and learning in the school.

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Very good.

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Thank you very much.

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We have to move, I think.

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Thank you all the cameras.

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I.

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Thank you, Chosen by the men and.

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The women, congratulations, we have got it.

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We have got this constructed.

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I want to build another one also like this, in our village, in separate hamlet, in another hamlet, in another habitat.

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How long did it take to build?

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It two months.

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It took two months to.

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Work on it too, Or was it all?

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All of us have constructed this and then our own village laborers, skilled laborers, 8 of them have contributed their work here and percent of the cost they contributed.

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Apart from their working congratulations of these poor women, able to speak in such an articulate way in front of a large crowd is something that is really phenomenal.

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I'm not sure people here fully appreciate it.

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I do as someone who called university students for many years, and I know what a special skill that is to be able to express yourself in public.

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I think one of the reasons they're so good at it is because these are the chosen leaders of a group that I'm, if I understand correctly, include some 8 million house in small village.

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This morning I was very impressed with what I observed from this small family.

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But the first thing that went through my mind was, well, maybe this is a pilot project.

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Maybe this is one family they picked out that's one of the best families.

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But as we went through the course of the day to larger and larger groups and then finally to this group here, I realized that what we saw in that one family in that small village has actually been reproduced all over the state of Andhra Pradesh, which, if I have the numbers right, is as big as most countries in Europe.

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It's an incredible achievement.

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And again, programs, as I said to these women, the first one I saw in Indonesia 20 years ago.

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I've seen some in Africa.

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I've seen some in Bosnia where it's been demonstrated that if you lend for people nothing else, even more remarkable seems to have happened, which is that these women have learned by helping one another how to give voice to their concerns that go far beyond material concerns.

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And that they have been able to defend their rights as women, to defend their rights as underprivileged classes in society in the way that probably couldn't have been imagined when this program started 10 years ago.

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I feel very, very deeply that women have to be included in the development process for the development process to be successful.

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What I've seen here in Andhra Pradesh today is the most vivid demonstration in my training in this program in another $260 million over the period through 2008.

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It sounds like a lot of money, and it is a lot of money, and it's the bigger contribution.

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But speaking as the president of the World Bank, I can say that we are extremely proud to be able to assist in something that is such a wonderful success as this program is.

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And one of the things I hope to learn in becoming weeks and months is, is there a way to take this subject?

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Because I'll be meeting with the president and going on the whole range of questions with the real topic for me is this incredible self help talking with the government here and with the government in Delhi about a range of real development.

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I believe it is an area where the World Bank can contribute a lot.

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But I don't have a specific team.

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Somebody over here thing about your agenda in.

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India as a whole, what are you going to do in Delhi?

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What?

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Are your plans there?

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Well, first of all, I'm here to learn tours people in this country of health and continues to be reduced.

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Somebody over here.

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Yes, Sir.

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Was there request from the government of AP to enhance the loans from?

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Worldwide, we in this program alone, we are Chief minister tonight and we talk about other specific things today really worked for me.

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For me, it was a learning experience and I hope it's a learning experience that we can take.

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As I said to other countries in the world, one of the it's been a great learning experience today.

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The brighter side of the World Bank is it is lending load for the poverty reduction, but the darker side of it is wherever it goes, there's a lot of protest from leftist groups.

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How do you see that?

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I'm sorry.

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So wherever the World Bank goes, there's a protest from leftist groups.

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How do you see it?

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I think there's nowhere in the world you can go if you're doing something that somebody would criticize it.

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I don't know how anyone could criticize the program we've just seen today.

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And I you asked already if someone could hand back OK, wait for the microphone.

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Particularly when you extend those two movie poverty and these kind of things, very sustainable modeling, but at the same time when you extend.

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A system, my impression is that one of the quite amazing things about when we just spoke with is they've demonstrated the ability now to borrow on their own, do things on their own.

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I the other part of your question is about conditionality and sources, the things that we think are successful.

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I think you'd have to agree that if we think a particular kind of project isn't going to be successful when you're not to listen to the countries about what works.

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The project we just witnessed was, if I understand correctly, it was generated here in, in India.

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I think here in Andhra Pradesh, it had begun already with a little bit of money from UNDP as take this if I can use a, but it was like a small plant that was planted by the UN development program.

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And we said, here's a small plant with some water and some fertilizers.

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And it's not about compelling conditions on people.

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It is about trying to invest in things that work and not invest in things, of course, fall under one of these education rules, the improvement electrification, which is also taken care of by 4 resources.

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And the last one, most programs that we are encouraging states to force follow the one of these education groups.

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The most programs that we are encouraging states to force follow the one of these education groups for resources 7:00 or 8:00, most priorities around them.

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We have now worked out a public private partition model.

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So that is an exception rather than drinking water.

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So I think this is the kind of project is exactly what the government wants to be participating and I'm too delighted that the Sun end of the trip.

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I guess one of the things that's really striking in both countries is that they're both dealing with a challenge of how to distribute very successful growth.

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And in the case of India, it's 15 years of successful growth to the poorer parts of the population that people have been left behind.

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And I'm enormously impressed in different ways in different places at the commitment from many levels of government to seeing that that happens in in Lahore.

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We heard in some detail about the education initiative that they seems to be extremely successful in increasing attendance, especially girls attendance in school.

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And yesterday in Andhra Pradesh, the self help groups were one of the most unforgettable days I've ever spent it.

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It's almost hard to believe that they've been able to get poor people so empowered and so successful.

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Taifa Well, I was very encouraged at what they've been able to do.

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And I think it is a indication of how the the most successful development is done by countries with strong systems of their own.

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President Clinton said when I was in New York in June.

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And I agree with him very strongly that there's both an opportunity and a challenge for the development community to see that the enormous sums of money that have been pledged to tsunami reconstruction are used well.

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And I think there may be some valuable lessons and even expertise developed here in India that could be applied elsewhere in the region.

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And it's one of the the nice things about the World Bank is we have an ability to to transfer less good lessons learned from one place to another place.

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Well, I must say I didn't entirely expect it, but both in Pakistan and India, I've encountered two of the most amazing examples of successful empowerment of women.

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And in Pakistan, it, it's not a World Bank program.

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It isn't even a government program, but this program of mobilizing women candidates for the 33% of seats that are reserved for women is a remarkable story.

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Only got a short look at it, but it's incredible.

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And yesterday in Andhra Pradesh, seeing how, I don't know if it's 6 million or 8 million, but some very large number of women in these self help groups who have changed their whole lives, not just materially, but as we could see in that incredible display of articulate, confident women clamoring to speak in their ability to present themselves and empower their point of view.

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It was.

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It's inspiring and it says it can be done.

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I, I I together with the department and.

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We.

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Work together for.

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The.

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Two months ago we have started this.

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How much will it add to your income do you know?

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This is the drinking water.

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Oh, it's just drinking water.

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Reduces the tragedy.

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Reduce the tragedy and good quality water.

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He's in 10th class.

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He's going to.

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The school.

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Who is the best?

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Very good.

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