president s remarks. i continue to call on congress here at home to take the urgent action to provide emergency covid-19 funding that is vital to protect americans, to make sure that we maintain our supplies of covid-19 tests, treatments and vaccines. white house officials in previewing this summit said this would not be a talk the talk summit but a walk the walk summit. the president wants not only other governments but private businesses and philanthropies to come with new commitments, and some from the u.s. are sharing technology that will help the further development of vaccines moving forward, and they are going to provide seed funding to the world bank for part of a new global pandemic prevention fund, preparedness fund. these are some of the steps the president is outlining today as
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people. reporter: his home has little space. we are sleeping over here, and that s used to be our bed. and we gave these bed to our ukrainian guests. reporter: but it s enough to share with the ukrainian mother and child. the third family he s taken in since the war began. i just felt it s part of me and i don t know if it s faith or tradition. it s just part of me. i have to do it. it s our time to do what we needed to have done for us 80 years ago. reporter: michael is chief rabbi of poland. in warsaw, the jewish community has plunged into help in this humanitarian crisis. offering everything from childcare to food and housing, counseling, and polish lessons. they say jewish fphilanthropies mostly american, have donated
michael is chief rabbi of poland. in warsaw, the jewish community has plunged in to help in this humanitarian crisis, offering everything from childcare to food and housing, counseling. and polish lessons. he says jewish philanthropies, mostly american, have donated about 1$100 million to help ukrainian refugees, no matter what faith they practice. the effort is centering on poland, where in world war ii, the majority did not help. half of the jews killed during the holocaust were from poland. so given that complicated history, how does that motivate the jewish community today? it clearly has an added meaning for those who were jewish. understanding that this is what my grandparents needed and if we
and my view is that if policy is there just to, what economists call, fix market failures , you will literally always be too little, too late cos you will always be in fixing the gap mode, reacting. so the question that i pose in the book, and it s super relevant right now because this won t be the last virus that comes our way, is how do we actually have a proactive government that works proactively, but also with conditionalities, with the proper social contract, with business, but also with the third sector, philanthropies and so on. and what s so interesting is that, you know, we would have never, ever gotten to the moon had governmentjust tried to kind of de risk or enable the business sector. you ve brought us to the moon and the lessons to be learned, and i m going to get to that, but let me just stick with covid for a second, because the message of a lot of your economic work over years has been that the systems we have are failing us, and yet it seems to me in some ways, part