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🗓️ 4 February 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome, I'm Fee Glover and you're listening to my perfect country on the BBC World Service. |
0:06.0 | What would you pop in yours? |
0:08.0 | In my perfect country. |
0:10.0 | In my perfect country. |
0:12.0 | In my perfect country everyone would have enough and be happy with what they have. |
0:16.0 | I would have neighbours who might think differently, but whom I'm not afraid of. |
0:22.0 | I think one of the ways that you get to a population who knows what a good decision is, is by good education. |
0:28.0 | The word stress wouldn't exist. |
0:31.0 | Lefty officials are not there to rule, but to serve. |
0:34.0 | I would have to face only smiling people. |
0:36.0 | Vegan sharks. |
0:41.0 | Vegan sharks, well that might help the island nation were in this week but we'll get to that in a moment. |
0:46.0 | This is the series inspired by positive thinking. |
0:49.0 | We're looking to build a country from scratch and we need policies that actually work. |
0:53.0 | So every week we look at a different aspect of life. |
0:56.0 | And helping us to sort good policy from bad each week is Professor Henrietta Moore from the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London. |
1:04.0 | As we near the end of our series Henrietta, which policy has stood out the most for you? |
1:09.0 | Two of them. |
1:11.0 | First of all, Costa Rica's environmental policy because they decided not to have an army and to invest instead in their environment and Japan |
1:18.0 | because they decided not to have guns and I think those two things together are really important. |
1:24.0 | Excellent. Now Martha Lane Foxes with us every week as well, our digital guru helping us to sort the realism from the idealism. |
1:30.0 | What would you choose? |
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