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Ismail Radwan

Ismail Radwan

Internet personality

Dec 27, 2025

3:01
From the World
3:01
Bank perspective? Yeah, so, yeah, that's absolutely great question.
3:06
So you've hit on one of the issues in terms of we want all of our policies to be evidence-based.
3:12
So we can't just make up, you know, policies at our whim, although some countries seem to do that.
3:17
I'm not mentioning any names.
3:19
And in countries like Afghanistan, it is difficult.
3:22
So all of these countries do have statistical bureaus and they do collect statistical indicators.

8 MINS LATER

11:37
How do you balance your personal beliefs with the core mission of the World Bank, with the missions of the countries that you work with?
32:53
If this is really a rush or you think this is just an initiative by Saudi Arabia to want to diversify whilst also keeping that primary income from natural resources?
33:05
Yeah, so this is a very interesting question, Harvey.
33:09
So the oil is not going to run out.
33:12
We are discovering oil all over the place all the time.
33:17
So what is going to happen is that we are moving away from oil to a net zero global economy.
33:25
And Saudi Arabia has declared it will become net zero by 2060.
33:30
The PIF has declared it will become net zero by 2050.

11 MINS LATER

44:25
So how does the sort of composition of that fund look like? What does the where does that look like going forward? How much do you think that will change? And are you sort of bullish on the global economy over the next 10 years or so?

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