We have three states that will be a little tough for us, that is west virginia, montana, and south dakota. Im sure we will talk about south dakota. But we have strong incumbents in the red states. We have two more tossups, iowa and colorado. Our candidates are running very strong but they are very tough. If you talk to anybody on both sides of the aisle, as he races tighter and tighter, the maps become narrower. What gives you the confidence if you look at all the , all sayaround town that the republicans are favored. Youre going to have to run the table in places like North Carolina, iowa, colorado. Where is your confidence coming from . Out of those six races, they have to pick up four of them. Races, the at the ,emographics, kay hagan somebody who, 18 months ago they said there was no chance she would be winning. Here she has, to five days out, and she has a small but steady lead. Phenomenalve a infrastructure. If you look at the early vote numbers, absentee vote numbers, those are in our favor. Colorado, heres the funny thing about colorado. In 2010, he never let in a poll. E public and he came out to win. There will be a strong latino presence there. They say 7 of the electorate, i do think that will be true, i think it will be closer to 10 or 12 . They have not had a lot of competitive races lately. It is like telling fertile soil. Tilling fertile soil. There is no expensive piece in a washington publication about what is going on in alaska. An expensive piece in a washington location about what is going on in alaska. Hat is why im confident and their candidates are not great candidates. The do not have a todd akin, but that does not mean that they have good candidates. Tom tillis is a prime example. People are smart, and i think that when they go to the booth, they will realize what the choices. Three weeks left. Are you locked in on your strategy . Where are you putting your money in on the end . There is always flexibility. One thing that has been reported is that in michigan, we will be throttling back spending their as gary peters continues to expand his lead. We know they states that we will be playing in, the ones that we mentioned. There could be something going on and south dakota, which im assuming we will get to. We will continue to spend in new hampshire, because outside groups are spending millions there. Dakota, ator south crazy situation, a fourway race. Larry, he has no money himself, his wife is very human around and he puts his own press releases out. Will you jump in there . We will look at it and try and gather some more data. I think that we pride ourselves on being efficient. It looks like, externally, there are some things happening. There could be a path for us. A lot of people have written it off. It seems to be tightening up. We are gathering the research so that, and the next five days or so, we will make decisions. Do think he could rebound against the democrat . They could say, look, and is in our state attacking me. Harry reid is in our state attacking me. He will attack the democrat anyway. We will be smart, we will be careful. Three weeks out, we have to make sure that people know what the choices. He is having problems with the electorate in what should be in what should be an easy stay for republicans. I think that we have seen the Democratic Senatorial Committee is going in there. What arkansas what about kansas . Kansas is very interesting. Can i make a macro point and then come back down . Where we aretes seeing a response to republican overreach, and that is kansas and North Carolina. In kansas, we have sam brownback, who wants to turn into an experiment. And what does that leave you with . In North Carolina, they have far overreached cutting education, the ideological war on women. Redes that should be beet are in play because of what they are doing at the state level. Kansas, we have a fancy word in dc called caucusing. Greg has not decided what side he will be on. I do not see a role for us there, but we will continue to watch it. Reid is mentioned harry a big force behind your pac. He has spent time complaining about the Koch Brothers and your pac has been one of the biggest spenders in the election cycle. The exact thing that senator reid complains about. I was is not hypocritical . How is this not hypocritical . I know we are both baseball fans. There is a fantastic manager, he was with the philadelphia phillies, and he said that we should not have the designated hitter rule. But he did not bench david r ts oritz. Does he like the rules as they are . Absolutely not. But as long as the republicans refused to reform the system and the Supreme Court rules like it does, we have to play like it is. Continues republicans to keep these rules in place, continue to vote against Real Campaign finance reform, were going to have to cant just cede what has become an important part of the political atmosphere. Of it is interesting that republicans are saying that democrats are outspending them. Do you think that democrats have become better than republicans at their own game, and or the democrats doing the same thing they did in 2010 . Absolutely not. We have groups like afp, part arehe koch network that spending 200 million in the cycle. It would never be able to catch up with that. We would never be able to catch up with that. They do a lot of their money reported which is not to read it looks like they are spending nothing, but it is filed differently. We will never be to compete with him dollar for dollar. In ad spending, in the New York Times they ran a story. About 200,000,004 republicans compared to 70 million for democrats. We have to be efficient and work well. We have been able to spend 35 million. Have phenomenal and what phenomenal allies, like emilys list, to make sure that our dollars go further. President. Have the he has helped you raise money. How big of an advantage is that . President obama has been supportive of the organization. Has said to what it people in the democratic party, to donors, is, look. The election is important. It matters. And there will be a flood of them republican money. Like i said in the previous question, we may not like the system, but this is the system we have. We cant tell candidates that you are going to get 100 million in tv ads against you and you will not be able to fight back. I think that is an important thing to bring people that might not normally vote in. I think there is this myth, and some of it is based in reality, the democrats vote big on president ials and not in midterms. I think that technology is changing got a little bit. I think that signals that this election is a big deal. Host how big a liability as he . Guest this goes back to my whole thing on the national environment. Look is the president , particularly popular in some of the states . No. We can all read poll numbers. But this isnt the president isnt on the ballot. If you are Mary Landrieu or kay hagan, you vote for a bill not because it is the president s bill. Its because you vote for what is right for your state. So, you know Something Like , equal pay for women. Something like raising the minimum wage. These are all important issues that have been championed by the president. He is the head of the party. But also by our members. Because they know it is right for their state. Republicans its funny. In the New York Times, they reported on it just this week. The republicans thought they were going to win this whole election by talking about the economy. The economy is getting better. Is there more to do . Absolutely. We must do more. Obamacare. You see that a lot. That is going to win the election. Well, you know obamacare is , working. The website is getting better. People are getting coverage. They are trying to create a sense of fear and distrust. And that is a sad thing for a party that you dont have a vision you are advocating for. That you are just saying, you know what, be afraid. Be scared. Vote for our guys. Because we will make it better. Is that a messaging strategy that you are using that has been particularly effective in the red states . I think what has been effective is showing voters what are the consequences of what i would deem it a very reckless and irresponsible agenda that republicans are advocating, and whether they are in washington, or the republican study committee, which is a powerful faction, they are going to raise the medicare age or the Social Security age. In North Carolina, if you were going to cut education, if you are going to cut things like our earned income tax credit, if you are going to make this ideological crusade against womens rights, that is with the messaging is. Its saying to people this is the reality of what is at stake for this election. What state would you say you have been most helpful or . Ffective in when you look back at the year. That is a little like judging a game in the fourth quarter. I think North Carolina how much of you spent . We are at about 13 million. And i could get up to 60 million . To 16that could get up million . Yeah, 60 million. Million. That is just television. We will expand the ways and means that we are reaching voters. Americans for prosperity really made North Carolina ground zero. In the state government, art pope was the head of the budget. They spent i want to say 30 million to 40 million on television. They have 40 to 50 fulltime staffers there. We have been on air since about thanksgivi time. Maybe even earlier. So i think there is one case that we have acted as a bulwark against the money. So that hagan would get swamped early so she can make her case. Which she has very efficiently and effectively done. And save her money. And be able to marshal her resources for the end. And the marshal her resources for the Field Program. Things like that. So she doesnt always have to be on tv. That is really our role. When these outside groups come in, whether it be the crossroads, part of the koch network, its making sure we are there to fight back. We will never be able to outspend them. We will never compete dollar for dollar. But in 2010, whether wasnt a Senate Majority pac, in the five most competitive races, wisconsin, illinois, our incumbents or candidates were outspent about eight to one. This was when crossroads really got going. Those were races we probably should have won. And we just didnt. We want to make sure the errors airwaves are at least competitive. Eight minutes. You are known for your tv ads. What are you doing on the ground . I would expand that how we are reaching voters. It is more than just tv ads. If you guys live in the virginia srea during the president ial your tv gets full pretty quick. , people grab a sandwich during the football game. We have to make sure we are reaching voters where they are. And what that is is when you log on to your facebook page, if you flip on pandora or hulu, just really expanding. Because as people become more in how theymented get their information. You have to make sure you are reaching them in where they are. We have done a very aggressive mail program. We have done a very aggressive digital program. Tv is the bulk of what we do. Absolutely. But it is not all that we do. Because people do get their information from so many other places. You need to get people Binge Watching campaign commercials. Good luck with that. [laughter] on the ground, are you aligned with mostly democratic groups . We dont really do much for typical Field Programs. Other than as i just mentioned, making sure to reach voters were they are. What do you foresee in 2016 . Is the group going to keep going . Senator reid will be up for reelection. Will that be a distraction for the pac . Have you talked about this . We are focused on the next days. 2016 will take care of itself. This was the most favorable environment for republicans. Next cycle will be very favorable on paper to democrats. They have vulnerable incumbents in pennsylvania, and ohio, and wisconsin, and illinois. States that they won in 2010. That will boomerang back. They have two members that are running for president. Marco rubio and rand paul. Rob portman ohio has been eyed for vp. There will probably be great opportunities for the Senate Democrats to further expand the majority that we are going to hold in 2014. As far as us, we havent gotten there. In this election, we havent mentioned mcconnell grimes. How important is achieving that, just thinking back to senator daschle . Both kentucky and georgia and south dakota, but those are really the two best opportunities for pickups. Mitch mcconnell, its a very hard race. He is going to spend probably 50 million or 60 million. He has got a whole army of outside groups. But, allison, we have obviously been very involved there. We have spent more than 5 million making sure the the Biggest Group is on the democratic side. I know that the president is not particularly popular in kentucky. What people forget is in 2008, john mccain beat barack obama by 19 points. And Mitch Mcconnell beat his opponent by five. He has a history of underperforming. He rarely gets over 52 of the vote. His race against sloan in 96. He has this feeling. Look Alison Grimes is running a , very smart strategic campaign. Will it be a hard race . Absolutely. Mitch mcconnell is relentless. Relentless campaigner. A relentless strategist. He has a whole army of outside money. We are very confident that we will be in a position to win. Same with georgia. David purdue was had one of the most devastating pieces of information to come out about him when he said he was proud to be an outsourcer. That is devastating. Georgia and louisiana have more difficult. Would you be playing in those . Absolutely. Georgia, we have been active. We are going for the november 4 win. We think that is in the realm of possibility. Should that not be the case, we are prepared for the runoff. In georgia, our allies have been so effective as well. They have done the omens work there. Should they go to a runoff, then you have reserved time in both . We have not reserved time. The reasons for reserving time is that they think either prices will go up, or the airways will be too crowded. We will be able to battle back to both of those things. Some groups are trying to do the head fake of reserving airtime now. We are going for november. In louisiana, senator landrieu shook up heard her campaign, made some changes. Most people think a runoff is almost inevitable at this point for. Are you doing anything to ramp up in the final days . How do you see that shaking out . I think it will probably go to a runoff because of the ballot system. We are really playing for the november 4. We will have the resources to continue to be involved there in a heavy, heavy way. It will probably just continue what we have done. We wont know the Senate Majority may be until january. That is a real possibility. The new congress could be sworn in before we know who is in the majority. Which is exciting for people like us. I think we are probably unique in that situation. Everybody else probably would scratch their head. For political junkies, it could ruin christmas and new years, and ruin the championship game. And greg if he wins in , kansas, he will decide hes caucusing on which way he wants to go. I have to say we are kind of wrapping up. What has been fascinating about this cycle is that republican said the incumbents would be off the map. We would be charging virginia, new hampshire, michigan, oregon, minnesota, and they havent been able to. And i think that is a testament to what we have done, but more important, our candidates and their vision. So its been an interesting cycle. November 4, i think, will be a see if our Field Program what they are able to college. Will we outperform National Trends . But most important like, while us junkies like to get into the machinations of it all, is making sure we keep that democratic majority so that we can continue to build on the work we have done. Making sure women have access to health care. Students have access to homes. Seniors can retire with dignity. Thats why we love the game of it all. That is what is at stake in this election. You mentioned health care a couple of times. At the beginning of the year, that was the main issue. Absolutely. Over the last five years, we are probably seen about 1 billion spent around the health care bill. Both in tv ads, and you know people know what is in the bill. You are not going to move it a lot of undecideds. Are there so people that it fires up and they hate the bill . Sure. They are not going to destroy the bill. Theink that for the bulk of folks in the middle realize that the Health Care System is getting better. Prices are going down. Saying things like seniors getting wellness visits. These things are starting to get into effect. If no idea of the scary unknown, but the actual policy coming into effect. You get republicans going out there saying we are going to take this away from you. I dont think that is a message that is going to resonate. Particularly with swing voters. We have to improve upon it . Absolutely. Every legislation needs to be improved. But Mitch Mcconnell wants to rip it out by the root and branch. Specifically, i dont the gets the most effective method. Thats it for our time. Ty matsdorf, thanks for being here. Newsmakers is back with carl hulse. And the politico. We just talked to ty matsdorf. He is bullish on his chances for achieving his goals. He referenced that most of the polls out there suggested is a tough road for democrats. What is the reality . It is very close for democrats, but it is doable, though. Earlier in the year some people , thought that wouldnt even be possible. I think republicans give a lot of credit to the Senate Majority pac. I had a republican who went on for three or four minutes. About what a great job. And he said that was off the record, because i cant have a big story about me praising harry reids pac. I think that they and i would be interested to hear what you say i think that they are credited with keeping the democrats in this to a great extent. Definitely. I think that, going back to 2012, when democrats started using this big operation, they realize they had to be efficient with their money. And that is what republicans in conversation with me bring up a lot. That democrats are more efficient and how they spend their money and when they reserve their time on the airways. They have been more efficient. Republicans are starting to get a little nervous about this. Its certainly not the slam dunk they hoped it would be at the beginning with mark pryor in arkansas, Mary Landrieu in louisiana, kay hagan in North Carolina. Just places where they thought it was going to be a wash, it hasnt turned out to be that. Now, you know, elections break late, and it could still break. I think the problem for democrats is coming to iowaand coming to colorado. Places where they thought they were going to be fine. They had a strong candidate in iowa. A very popular candidate in colorado. And all of a sudden, those are tight races. For me, those of the races i am watching to see what happens there. Those could be the kinds of races that decide things. Both sides have pretty much dropped away from michigan at this point. They only got is going to be a competitive race. That is a hypocrisy question about spending this kind of money when senator reid has been critical of it. His response was the classic one that we here in this game, we dont like the rules, but as long as the rules are in place, we are going to play by them. And get really good at it. When he responds that way, what is your analysis of his position on some thing like this . Right now, i think it is bringing in a lot of money for them. For a lot of small donors, even a lot of big donors, a key issue is money and politics. So, you know, the fact that democrats keep saying that they are opposed to big money helps them get the big checks. Which seems very ironic, but so much so, that we are seeing the groups that started spending in south dakota on behalf of brett williams. Is opposed to big money. That is their main goal. They are spending big money. Exactly. It is very ironic. They will keep getting asked that question unless they do something about it. Reid,hink that senator the constant attacks on the Koch Brothers has been an effective issue. I do think it is a tough sell when you are always running around complaining about dark money and the influence of big money in politics when you are playing the same game. But also, they would have to do it. They would have to unilaterally surrender. That would be a huge mistake. Without the super pac, i think this election would be looking a lot different right now. This is the most disaggregated media election. It will probably continue along those lines. You talked about the various ways they are trying to be everywhere, especially young voters. How does the effectiveness change when you are having to split the pie summary ways so many ways . There is so much analytics being done in terms of targeting voters, even with direct mail. I have talked to a lot of direct mail people who have been doing this for years. They have said there eir job has gotten more interesting. With digital, mail has been revived. It connects the voters then to go online and look up more about the candidate. Or they start getting ads on facebook. If they have also received a mailer. It is a very interesting case where things become more intertwined. In terms of targeting voters. I think that tv stations should be worried a little bit. This is a cash cow for tv in high competition states like arkansas, iowa, places like that. Theyve really the money has been pouring in. But i think as ty said, you see it starting to fragment. And whether or not people in these coming cycles will keep pouring it all in to tv ads on network affiliates, im not sure it will be the same it. Its like polling with cell phones. We are just about out of time. Which races are you watching . Iowa and colorado are the two biggest ones. Im personally covering the North Carolina race. I have been covering up for the last year. Im interested in seeing what happens there. I think it is going to come down but to iowa and colorado. South dakota and kansas are really fascinating. This one is turning out to be something of a political junket. Junkies field day. Thanks for being here. Be part of the campaign 20 14 coverage, follow us on twitter and like us on facebook to get debate schedules, video clips of key moments, debate previews from our Politics Team it. Cspan is bringing you over 100 senate house and governor debates. And you can instantly share your reactions. The battle for control of congress, stay in touch and engage by following us on twitter, and liking us on facebook. On the next washington journal, ceo matt talks about the influence of the tea party on the midterm elections. Will discuss recent Court Rulings on voting rolls that may impact key races. Reporter elise looks at the handling of ebola cases in the u. S. As always, we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. World Bank President jim yong kim called for increased funding to deal with the Ebola Outbreak in west africa. He spoke at the International Monetary fundworld Bank Annual Meeting thursday in washington, d. C. This is 25 minutes. Hello, everyone. Thanks for coming to the press conference to open the 2014 world bankimf annual meetings. Dr. Kim will give a statement and then we will take questions. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. And welcome to the 2014 World Bank Groupimf annual meetings. I have 3 topics and then i will take your questions. Ive just come from a meeting focused on the ebola epidemic. And we had an extremely productive discussion. We had president conde from guinea with us and president Johnson Sirleaf and president koroma on video conference. They not only addressed us, they made extremely specific requests as to what they need. To focus their response. The crisis, we know could have , an enormous impact. Just yesterday, we gained an understanding of the potential Economic Impact. The world Bank Released a new Economic Impact assessment that said if the epidemic is not quickly contained and if it spreads to neighboring countries, the twoyear regional Financial Impact could reach 36 billion by the end of 2015. That could be catastrophic for the region. One of the things secretary of the department for International Development in the u. K. , justin greening, pointed out every day we do not invest in stopping the crisis is many, many more dollars and pounds that we are going to have to use later. It is an extremely good investment right now to prevent this kind of loss and put all the money on the table to get the response going. The World Health Organization estimated that liberia alone, for example needs 364 treat thestaff to infected. One of the sticking points has been lack of medical evacuation. From thethis morning European Commission and the u. S. , both of those groups have now committed to medical evacuating Health Workers and other workers, the responders. This has been a major roadblock. And now with the announcement , this morning, i think we are on a much better path to be able to staff the response. The second subject, and id be happy to talk more about the other outcomes of that meeting. The second subject involves infrastructure. Today i will be launching a , partnership initiative, the Global Infrastructure facility, aimed at mobilizing the private sector to tackle the infrastructure deficit facing developing countries and emerging markets. We estimate that these countries need 1 trillion a year in extra investment through 2020. The Global Infrastructure facility represents collaboration between Institutional Investors and the World Bank Group to unlock billions of dollars. For Infrastructure Projects and developing emerging economies. Pursesc perches stretched, it is significant that the heads of some of the worlds leading Institutional Investors will be signing up as partners. Institutional investors have deep pockets. Insurance and Pension Funds have some 80 trillion in assets. But less than 1 of Pension Funds are allocated directly towards infrastructures. And the bulk of that is in developed countries. We have been hearing loud and clear that the money is out there. The real challenge is not a lack of money, but a lack of bankable projects, a sufficient supply of commercially viable and sustainable infrastructure investments. This is a new concept that can be piloted quickly and does not require tens of billions in new resources. The aim is to crowd in the tens of billions or more potentially thats now sitting on the sidelines waiting for good investments, and we can bring those investments off the sidelines by addressing issues like risk. My third topic involves the fight against cholera in haiti. Today were pledging 50 million to help improve access to safe water and sanitation for all haitians aimed at preventing water borne diseases. Later ill be sharing a conference with the United Nations and the secretary general, ban kimoon, with the objective of raising even more donor funds. Thank you very much. Now ill take your questions. , ok, so please identify yourself and your organization. The woman in the back there. Is there a microphone . Ok. Thank you. Dr. Kim, i have a question, the Asian Infrastructure investment bank. What is your comment on the model compared to the existing institutions such as the world bank and the a. D. P. , and do you think they can cooperate effective with the world bank, but without a to avoid, also avoid fragmentation . Well, my understanding is the a. I. B. , the Business Model is still being discussed. There are many different issues that are still to be worked out. Ive made it very clear from the very beginning of discussions a. I. B. That we think that we can be a very, very Strong Partner for a. I. B. For example, we have 70 years of experience doing project preparation, helping with implementation, supervision, and also we think that the safeguards that we bring to the table in any project will be helpful in reducing risk for investors. I mean, this is really a major concern of all investors that they do not want to they do not want to suffer the reputational damage that will happen if environmental and social safeguards are not respected. So i think that weve already been in very close discussions with leaders in the new development bank, and our intention, our intention and our expectation is that well be working very closely. You know, at the World Bank Group, our enemy is poverty, and just as i said, theres such a need for more investment and infrastructure that any organization thats focused on investing in infrastructure to fight poverty is our friend. Asked question next question. Right there. Thank you. Anthony, emerging markets. The world bank has progressively withdrawn from infrastructure over a long period, and a great deal of the expertise that used to exist in the bank, everything from engineering and finance presumably is no longer there. So does this mean that the bank is now going to stock up again staff up again with the kind of people who specialize in infrastructure . Well, we still have quite a large portfolio in Infrastructure Projects. I think its a relatively smaller proportion of the overall portfolio than it was , say, decades ago. On the other hand, we did over 60 billion in business last year. As we scale up our global practices, our groups that are specifically focused on particular areas, if we need to bring in more experts on roads and energy and transport, well do so, but we are already doing quite a bit of work in infrastructure. The platform, though, is very important in a new sense, that as we start putting projects together, it will be people from the world bank who have expertise, but well also be able to draw on expertise from the other Multilateral Development banks, and importantly, also from the private sector. So this is a platform to bring together the expertise to take what we know are bankable projects, but that without the kind of project preparation that will make it clear that theyre bankable projects, investments wont flow. So were looking forward to drawing on expertise from all over the world, but also from inside the World Bank Group. Ill take the back there. Your protection is to ensure identify yourself, please. Cliff from nigeria. Sub Saharan Africa is to grow above 5 with some country like nigeria growing at 6 . We know too well that a whole lot is passing on. The growth rate is important on the efforts of world bank to encourage countries to end poverty. Thank you. Im not sure what the question was. Im sorry. Ok. What im saying is, given the impressive growth rate in sub Saharan Africa, to what extent is it important on the effort to end abject poverty . The question is, to what extent is the growth rate in africa impacting poverty, ok. This is an important question. You know, in 1990, the number of in extreme poverty in living east asia and in africa was about the same, 55 or so. In east asia, its dropped to less than 10 . But in africa its remained at 46 . And so one of the things that has been a bit of a disappointment is that poverty rates have remained high despite high growth rates. And so very specifically, in africa, were working with countries to ensure that these high growth rates are translated into lowering levels of extreme poverty. For example, many african countries have had new discoveries of natural resources, minerals, oil, for example. And what we know in so many cases, these discoveries dont lead to direct benefits for the poorest. And so this is one of our most important priorities. We want to ensure that we work with african countries to take these new, wonderful, important discoveries of mineral royals, wealth, of oil wells, and translate that into reduced levels of poverty. I can tell you that every one of the ministers of finance i speak with in africa are very committed to reducing extreme poverty and making sure that ir prosperity is shared. We need to just provide the kind of technical expertise, solution from around the world that will help them do that. The purple here. Thank you. I have a question regarding ebola. So in your remarks, you , mentioned the new assessment of the Financial Impact regionally. I wonder can you elaborate on that. And also in what aspects do you , think there might be a spillover effect all over the world . Thank you. So one of the things we did, our economists, were looking at what were the impacts , economically, in previous epidemic. One of the things we looked at was sars. What we learned is the impact of sars, which was a tragic outbreak, 800 deaths, but the overall Economic Impact was far greater than just the impact of the virus. It was 46 billion. And the impact, 80 to 90 of the Economic Impact is not from the virus itself, its from the aversion behavior, the fear factor that surrounds an outbreak. Now, what we know is that the one thing that will stop that aversion behavior and lessen the Economic Impact is to have systems in place so that responses are quick and effective. So one of the things we talk ed about this morning is that we now know exactly what it will take not only to stop the virus, but stop the aversion behavior that leads to this huge Economic Impact. Thats really good news in a sense, that doing the right thing not only identifying cases, doing safe burials, but providing treatment for the people who are ill, and doing it even at the communitybased level, which is what was called for today, all those things are the right thing to do for the guinean, and Sierra Leonean people. Its the right thing to do to prevent the spread from a Public Health perspective, and its also the right thing to do to stop the fear that causes the enormous Economic Impact. So this morning, what we did is everyone redoubled their commitment to acting right now to get those adequate treatment, prevention, Identification Systems in place on the ground in those countries. And this is a point that we really want to make. Are there other spillover effects . , were hearing with the two workers who died in spain, plus maybe one or two new infections that have happened, that were already seeing an Economic Impact. Travele stock value of companies and airlines have already taken a hit. I can tell you that that will continue unless we get the adequate response in place in those three countries. You have to stop these epidemics at the source. Trying to block your borders or isolating those countries somehow is not going to work. So i was encouraged this morning, but theres still a lot of work to do. And one of the messages that is came out very strongly is if anybody, any country, any private sector group would like to make a contribution, they should do it now, want wait two or three weeks, because the price tag goes up every day that we delay. Behind larry. Yes. High, andrew from bloomberg news. Dr. Kim, can you clarify the 32. 6 billion, what geography that covers. Does that cover western africa . Or is that yeah, its western africa. Its western africa and the surrounding countries. I can give you a list of exactly what countries. And its looking at what will happen if the cases begin to spread. And the thing that, the point that we were making is that right now, as long as its not under control, as long as let me put it this way. So right now, because we dont have adequate Treatment Services and, you know, if you think about it from the perspective of a person from guinea, sierra leone or liberia, the Public Health, the Public Health imperative is to stop the spread. But the human imperative, the individual human imperative is to get treatment. So the incentive right now is to go wherever you need to go to get treatment so you can live. Right now we dont have the services in place so that the first thought of the people from those three countries is i need to go to my local clinic, because i know theyll take care of me effectively. So thats what we need to do. Now, the presumption of the 32. 6 billion is things get delayed and delayed and delayed, and the people inside those countries do the rational thing for themselves and try to find care elsewhere. Thats where the real impact is going to happen. If we see this kind of impact already with two, maybe four, maybe four cases in spain, then historically this aversion behavior, this fear factor can spread very quickly. To clarify, do you have a global figure at this point . Not yet, not yet. Ok were going to take time , for two more questions. In the back there. Thank you. Michael. Dr. Kim, on tuesday you held a improvised town hall meeting to hear concerns and questions from staff about the ongoing reforms at the World Bank Group. What was your biggest takeway from that meeting, and do you expect that it will lead to any concrete changes in either the implementation or communication of your reforms . And then sorry, just a quick second question. Youre undergoing a strategic staffing exercise to match staff map staff to the global practices. How do you know where expertise will be required before youve seen demand for your services under the new organizational structure . Thank you. Thanks, michael. First of all, you know, were undergoing the most thorough, the most ambitious reorganization in close to 20 years. So its not a surprise to me that theres anxiety, that theres concern. More than anything, what the staff were saying was that they wanted to talk to me directly. They wanted to tell me what the problems are that they were seeing. And i was aware of some of them. There were some that were new to me. But we had an extremely good discussion, and my takeway from that, the most important takeway, the thing that kept coming up is that they want to talk to me more, so well have another town hall next week, and well do as many as we need until people feel that theyre being heard. Now, this is what happens when you try to reorganize a multilateral institution. Ive done reorganizations before. But the complexity of this institution is just enormous. Theres 188member governments. We work in many, many different languages, so many different countries. So on the one hand, im not surprised. But i would also point out, look at all the things that weve already gotten done. For example, we have been able to double the capacity for our lending to middle income countries. We had a record replenishment last year. Already the global practices are providing information and support, for example, to Prime Minister modi in india, he tweeted out immediately after my meeting that they dont need our money, but were going to be their information bank, and the reason is because we were able to provide him such interesting insights into how we can Bring Solutions to his problem. So there are a lot of good things about it already, but any time you undertake something this enormous, youre going to have these kind of problems. Now, in terms of a strategic staffing, we know a lot from what weve already been doing, so we have some ideas about the kinds of staff that we will need and wont need. But what i would like to stress is that the expenditure review we are going through, the strategic staffing, this is stuff you have to do as an organization no matter what, and we havent done it. We havent been doing it for quite a few years. So when you start the process of asking questions like, what are we spending on Different Things . Are we spending the same amount to do something here as were doing over there . When youre asking those questions for the first time, it is really tough to go through. But its just something that every organization should go through. Every organization should ask itself, do we have the right staff, and are we fit for purpose for what were trying to do . I am glad that weve done it, and will continue, and the good news is that were almost done. Were going to be finished soon. Ok. Im looking for some gender balance. You. Thank you so much. On the chinese economic slowdown, it has now almost been a year after the Chinese Government carried out a slew of measures in order to make the economy more stable, so what is your evaluation on those reforms that have been carried out so far, and how would you integrate the slowdown . Do you take them as cyclical changes, or do you take them as the changes brought by those reforms . Thank you. China is trying to undergo a massive change in their growth model, and this is something that my predecessor, i think, worked truly brilliantly with the Chinese Government over several years to put together a plan called china 2030. So if your intention, china going from some of the highest investment rates that weve ever seen, 46 of g. D. P. , and then to try to pivot to a Growth Strategy thats much more focused on consumption and services, to try to sort of move up the value chain, if you will, in terms of economic productivity, this is a very difficult thing to do. And so we have been watching very carefully, and there has been a slowdown from traditional rates of very high growth rates of 10 , and i think the important thing we watch is that china continues to be committed to that reform process. We believe that that reform process and moving toward a different growth model is what china needs to do. And so its its a very delicate balance. They have to, on the one hand, be ready to move to a different growth model, but on the other hand, try to keep growth rates up, because you need the growth for new jobs, new entrants in the market. We have faith in chinese leadership. We think that they are they very clearly understand these tradeoffs. And we will continue to work very closely with them. For example, one of the things that after the china report, the Chinese Government has continued to ask us to help them solve their most difficult problems. So last year we launched a report on urbanization. And, as an example of what a global practice is able to do, our many different global practices got together and said what are the best models in the world and in china for how china can handle the next 300 Million People who are coming into the cities . China will be the first country in the world that has one billion urban dwellers, and so we looked at everything from how to reform the system, how to provide health and education in the cities, how to provide clean energy, how to increase the density of cities so that we lower the carbon footprint. Andhina is now already china is now already undertaking the recommendations that we came together jointly to provide. Right now, were working on an assessment, a plan for their healthcare system. China spends already 5 of g. D. P. , which is a huge amount. But theyre not happy with the amount of Health Improvement that theyre getting for this expenditure. This is so healthy for a country to be able to say we want to do better in a particular area, and we think that if we can help them to make the most of their current expenditures and make those expenditures as efficient as possible so that we actually have healthier people, that this will be also a way to spur economic growth. Its difficult for many people to watch china have lower growth rates, but we feel that theyre doing it in a way thats very much with a tremendous awareness of what theyre trying to accomplish. Thank you very much. Well be putting out a transcript later today for you. Thank you. \[captioning performed by national captioning institute] \[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] monday night, on the communicators, three members of Congress Talk about technology legislation. In 2012, we passed a law that makes it possible for the major broadcasters to get back some of their spectrum that they have had. 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