Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shipping your world.

Shifting the planet to low or no carbon economies is going to be expensive, but not every intervention

is as pricey as the next. We take a look at new ways to think about costs and how policy

makers can determine what's best in terms of value for money.

And, on the island of Zanzibar of Africa's East Coast, the government owns most of the

land, but its citizens that own each and every fruit tree. They're handed down the generations

and keeping track of who owes whom is no easy task.

Let's start, though.

Rishi Sunak has been Britain's Chancellor of the X-Checher, its keeper of the national

purse strings for just over a year. And today marks another significant moment in a

tenure defined by COVID-19. This afternoon, Mr. Sunak will deliver his 2021 budget, the

government's tax and spending plans for a Britain emerging from a pandemic. He'll have

to balance protecting jobs and supporting businesses with beginning to repay the eye-watering

271 billion pounds, or $380 billion borrowed by the government over the past year.

Ahead of the speech, the Treasury released a highly-produced film with an upbeat Mr.

Sunak talking over stirring music.

And we've had a lot thrown at us this year. Everywhere I go, I just see that spirit of

resilience.

Mr. Sunak has earned himself a reputation for competence. The dashing and whip smart

40-year-old is the bookmaker's favorite to be the next Prime Minister. But first,

he'll have to plot a careful course through the end of the pandemic.

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