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Hello, I'm Chris Anderson, welcome to the Ted interview, where I get to drive much

deeper into a speaker's ideas than as possible during their short Ted Talk.

In 2015, Ted Global Conference featured the economist and author, Dambi Samoyo.

He took the stage and said something that was almost the opposite of what speakers before

her had said.

Our ability to create and sustain economic growth is the defining challenge of our time.

Of course there are other challenges, healthcare, disease burdens and pandemics, environmental

challenges, and of course radicalized terrorism.

However, to the extent that we can actually solve the economic growth challenge, it will

take us a long way to solving the challenges that I've just elucidated.

So the importance of economic growth has perhaps never been more evident than today, with

the world's economy running in reverse.

Yet, Dambi's views on this and many other topics like overseas aid, climate, democracy,

and how we should think about China's surging power remain highly provocative.

Just before the coronavirus exploded in the West, I had the opportunity to sit down

with Dambi's to get a better sense of her worldview and how we might apply it as we

think about rebuilding the future.

This was a really fascinating conversation.

Let's dive in.

So Dambi's so welcome to the Ted interview.

Thank you, happy to be here.

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