What do you get for Mother's Day? A gift, what about for Father's Day? A gift, what about for a birthday Valentine's Day or the day somebody graduates? A gift, do you see where I'm going with this? It's pretty much a gift for literally any occasion that you can think of. You can give a gift for just about anything.  Regardless of the occasion for the gift, one thing's certain, you're gonna spend money.  A lot of the times it depends on who you're giving a gift to or the occasion. But you're always gonna be spending money. Also, some people love giving extravagant gifts while others like giving a bunch of different gifts. It's really all up to the person giving the gift. That being said, having an e-commerce store that's based around gifts could be quite lucrative. You can have a store that changes products depending on the holiday that's coming up or you can have a store that sells the same holiday items year round. Regardless of how you go about it, having a drop shipping business based around gifts is a very good idea. Look at it this way. Let's say Valentine's Day is coming up and you have a brick and mortar store. So you have a physical location and you wanna start offering different Valentine's Day gifts. What are you gonna do?  Remember that there's not gonna be a guarantee that you sell all of the gifts and whatever you don't sell after Valentine's Day you're either gonna have to give at a discount or just wait until next year. Having physical inventory in particular for holidays can be hit or miss. Now let's say you have an online store that you decide to drop ship all your gifts, then you really don't have much to lose. Remember that when we're drop shipping we're not holding any physical inventory and we're not placing an order with our suppliers until somebody places an order with us. So really there's almost no risk involved. The chances to be left with outdated stock is pretty much zero. In this video I'm gonna give you a few key steps to success when starting your drop shipping business based around gifts, in particular in the UK. Now not only that, I'm also gonna give you 15 different suppliers that you can use to source your gifts. Now make sure you stick around all the way to the end because I can guarantee you that a few of these suppliers you haven't heard of. Now without waiting any longer let's go ahead and run that intro and let's get started. What's going on everyone, Mario here with out of DS and if you like informative videos on the drop shipping business as well as staying up to date with the latest and most trending products make sure to hit that subscribe button as well as click that little bell notification so you don't miss out on any future updates. Now let's get started. So when starting our gift drop shipping business in the UK one of the first things that we need to do is obviously find what products we wanna sell. Now the term gift can be extremely broad. There's a ton of different items that can encompass just in the word gift. A gift can be a t-shirt, some roses, a piece of jewelry pretty much anything can be a gift. So since we have such a wide selection of products to choose from it's important to know which ones would actually sell because we don't wanna fill up our store with just any products that are just gonna sit there. Even though we are drop shipping and we don't really have anything to lose when it comes to inventory and space we always wanna make sure that we're stocked up with winning products versus items that are just gonna sit there in our digital space. There's a few different product research methods that we can use to be able to find the best selling products for our gift drop shipping store. One of those is just checking out the best sellers or checking out items that have already sold. So for this we can use something like eBay. Let's say we're looking for Mother's Day gifts so we can look up Mother's Day gifts. This is of course a very broad term but we can see what's actually selling within that niche. Now these are all the different gifts that we get. We can go ahead and actually just scroll down on the side. Here where it says show only. Let's go ahead and check off sold items. Now we're gonna see only what's sold. So you have bouquets. Bouquets are huge during Mother's Day. You have some self care items, some jewelry, a couple mugs. So these are all items that have sold and the price that they've sold at. Here what you can do is start looking through all the products and see what type of product has sold the most. So let's take for example bouquets. If you notice that a lot of bouquets have been selling then you can consider that one product to be able to add to your drop shipping store. Another cool option that you have is being able to spy on your competitors. So this is actually fairly easy especially if you have an app like Koala Inspector. Koala Inspector can give you a lot of insight into competitor Shopify stores.  So as you can see here these are all the different Mother's Day gifts that have sold on AliExpress. Now if we really want to get serious with our product research and we really want to find the best and most trending products and we want to know what's making them sell so well then we can check out the winning product section over at autoDS.com. Now remember just about anything can be a gift. So that being said when we're looking at the winning product section we just have to find something that fits our website. So in this case the first thing we have to do is just make sure we're shipping to the UK. So let's switch this over to United Kingdom. So let's look at this little pendant right here. It only costs about 95 cents. So let's click on this. Now as you can see this is a super simple nice little pendant. You can give this as a gift to your mom, your dad, your significant other or really just about anybody that you care about. And we can see that the item cost is only 95 cents. Now let's scroll down a little bit and let's see that most of them are being sold for about $40. That gives us a potential profit of $36.99. Now this is a proven winning product. This item has sold before and there's proof that it's been selling. If you just check out the suppliers website you'll see how many they've sold and you can check out all the different reviews. Now not just that. If you just scroll down a little bit you can find a bit more proof and you can see the Facebook ad. So let's look at the Facebook ad that this particular seller's running and you're gonna see that it has over 8,000 likes. That's a lot. It has close to 700 comments and over 535 people have shared this particular Facebook ad. Really the marketing on the side is what's making it a best seller. If you look at the cover image here it says that there's no one like you and it's the image of the pendant with two people hugging. It's simple, meaningful and straight to the point. Now if you look at the target audience for this Facebook ad you can see that this is actually targeted more towards females between the ages of 14 and 65 with a marital status of either single or married because again you can give this to just about anybody. You can give it to either your significant other or your parents with an interest in jewelry and fashion. Now let's go into a little bit more detail before we continue forward and let's actually look at the seller's website. So under the AutoDS Insights you're gonna have a link to the website. So here you can see the listing for the item itself and you can see it's actually pretty clean. Everything is simple, straight to the point, self-explanatory. I don't know how limited it really is because remember they're drop shipping this. So most of the times something like this can be just a marketing tactic. So we know what products we wanna sell. We know how to find the best products to be able to sell. Now we have to find out where we're gonna source them from. Where are we gonna purchase these products from to be able to quickly and efficiently supply our customers with their items. Speaking of suppliers, I know I promised you all 15 different suppliers and we're gonna get to that I promise you but not just yet. Just stick with me for a little bit longer. Right now we're gonna quickly talk about choosing the one that's right for you. So when we're choosing our suppliers one of the most important things that we have to do is see if they have clear business policies. And what I mean by that is check out their privacy policy, make sure they have one. Even if you don't fully understand it just make sure that they have one and that it's properly written at least. If you click on someone's privacy policy and it just has a bunch of random text, stay away. Another thing to look out for is an about us section.  Just make sure that they have one and that it's a brief description of the company itself. Check to see if they have a fact page or a frequently asked questions page where you can find some of the most common questions and concerns that the company usually gets with all their answers. Check out their shipping policy, see how long it takes for them to ship items, see where their warehouses are at and how long it typically takes to have items delivered. Also, see what fulfillment services they use like USPS, UPS, FedEx and whatever other carriers they could potentially use. Something extremely important that you always need to check out also is the returns and refund policy. Always look into that because if there's ever an occasion where a customer receives a damaged or the wrong good you wanna make sure that you can quickly reach out to your supplier and have the issue fixed, whether it be an exchange of the item or a refund. You always wanna make sure that your supplier accepts returns or exchanges to just avoid any problems down the line. You always wanna make sure that your supplier has fast and responsive customer service. Now, the easiest way to be able to test this is simply by just sending them an email. Ask them a few questions about certain products or what the refund policy is and just see how they get back to you, see how quick they get back to you and most importantly, make sure that you can understand what they're saying. Since a lot of suppliers that we end up going with tend to be in China, we wanna make sure that language is not a problem. Remember that when a customer asks you a question, most of the time you're gonna end up forwarding that question to your supplier. So the customer service that you receive from them is gonna be what you end up giving to your customer. So you wanna make sure that it's the best possible quality that it can be. Another thing to look out for is making sure that the supplier that you go with has a wide variety of items or gifts. In this case, if we're looking at the age gate, we can see that they have a ton of different Father's Day gifts and if we search up Mother's Day gifts, Valentine's Day gifts or whatever else, there's also gonna be a large selection. One of the last things that we want to make sure of is that they have domestic warehouses.  If you're shipping to the UK and your supplier's warehouse is all the way in China, it's gonna take quite some time for your product to get to your customer and customers don't like waiting, as we all know. The next key step in building our successful gift drop shipping business in the UK is finding a selling platform that's right for us. And that works in the UK. Remember that some selling channels will work in certain areas while others won't. In the UK in particular, the best ones that you can go with are gonna be Shopify, Wix or eBay. Couple key differences from eBay, Shopify and Wix is eBay is a marketplace, while Shopify and Wix are your own custom e-commerce stores. So when it comes to Shopify and Wix, you're gonna be building your own website. While eBay, you're just gonna be listing on their platform. When you're selling on eBay, you really don't have any investment. All you have to do is list your item and if it sells, you pay the fee. If it doesn't, then the listing's gonna stay up until it sells free of charge. With eBay, you also have organic traffic. So people that go to eBay are already looking to purchase a particular item. While implementing different marketing tactics to be able to increase your sales on eBay can help, it's not always necessary. As I mentioned earlier, eBay is a marketplace and people are going to that website already ready to buy something. So as long as you have a relevant item to what they're searching for, chances are they could find it and they can make the purchase. Now when you're marketing your products on the website like Shopify or Wix, then that's your own website.  Chances are you're not gonna have the organic traffic that a website like eBay is gonna have because people just aren't gonna know about your website. So in this case, really, it's up to you to be able to start bringing your website in front of the eyes of other people with things like influencer marketing, email marketing, Facebook ads, and a few different options. Now a huge upside to using a platform like Shopify or Wix is the fact that you have apps. There's a bunch of different apps to be able to help you upsell, market your products, bundle your items, and more to be able to help you increase your sales. So we know how to do the product research. We know how to find our suppliers and we know what platform we're gonna be selling on. Now, how do we start getting our listings from our suppliers to our websites? For one, you can start manually listing all your products. That can take anywhere between five to over 20 minutes depending on how much you have to copy over, what you have to optimize, what you have to rewrite. Let's say you have to rewrite the entire description because the one from your supplier isn't very good. Same thing with the title.  So depending on a bunch of different factors, it can be really quick or it can take a long time. Now, when it's just one or two items, it's fine but when you start adding multiple products, maybe 10, 11 or more, it can start to get extremely time consuming. Let's assume it takes you 15 minutes to upload one product and you have to upload 10 different products. That's 150 minutes translated into hours. That's two and a half hours uploading products only. That's a long time to only upload 10 at that. In this case, your best bet to save a ton of time is to pretty much just automate the entire importing process of all your products. Now, AutoDS helps with this in quite a few different ways. For one, we offer our one click importer or our bulk uploader. Now, I really like the one click importer which I'll show you in a second but let me quickly show you the bulk import. So just click on add products and then you can either add a single product or multiple products. This is super simple to do. Click on the single product, choose your store and then all you have to do is type in the URL or the product ID and the products can be imported to your drafts. Now, aside from that, the multiple products you can go ahead and add the products. Click on multiple products and paste in all the different URLs or upload a CSV file. But the one that I really wanna show you guys that I absolutely love is the one click importer. Now, the one click importer is an awesome tool because it does literally just that. It imports your products in just one click and for this, all you need is the AutoDS Chrome extension. So as you can see, I actually already have it down here on the bottom right of my screen. So once we click into the product itself, you're gonna see this little import to AutoDS button right on top of the title. Let's go ahead and click on that and let's choose a store that we wanna upload it to. In this case, I'm just gonna upload it to my eBay UK store. Click save and that's it. You're gonna find this product in your draft section over at your AutoDS dashboard. Now, from there, all you really have to do is just optimize the title, the description and see what folders you wanna keep and that's pretty much it.  Now, one of the most crucial steps to be able to start getting sales and getting our products in front of the eyes of new people is marketing our website. Now, there's a few different ways we can go about this depending on the platform that you're selling on. So for one, we can run paper click ads or simply put Facebook ads. Well, most commonly known as Facebook ads, paper click ads also applies for Google ads as well as YouTube ads. The way this works is actually fairly simple.  That target audience is set by you.  That fee is set by you when you're setting up your ads. Now, typically this kind of marketing technique with the paper click ads is usually reserved for platforms like Shopify or Wix where you need to bring in the traffic yourself, typically in the form of ads.  With the eBay paper click ads, what's gonna happen is whenever somebody searches a term that's relevant to your product, then eBay is gonna put it all the way at the top of the listing, you're gonna see a little message on the bottom that says sponsored. And whenever somebody clicks on that listing, then you're gonna get charged your fee. Aside from that, eBay has another ad type that actually charges you after your customer has placed their order. Another awesome way to be able to start marketing your product is using influencer marketing. What you're gonna do in this case is you're gonna look for an influencer, typically somebody with a bunch of followers, maybe in the tens of thousands on either Instagram, TikTok or YouTube, and you're gonna send them a free product or a few different free products for them to try and review on their channel. From there, their followers are gonna see the product, they're gonna like it, and they're gonna run over to your website and make a purchase. Now if you want a bit more information on marketing your products, then check out the description down below. I'm gonna have a link to the relevant article down there. Everything that I'm gonna be talking about in this video is actually gonna be in that article. So if you wanna check it out, just know that it's gonna be in the description. Now that we're running ads and marketing our different products, now we're gonna start getting some sales. At this point, what we have to do is make sure that we start fulfilling all our orders in a timely manner. Now we have two different options to be able to start fulfilling our orders. For one, we can start going to all our suppliers and making each purchase individually, which is pretty much what we're gonna have to end up doing, especially if we have multiple customers. So if we have 10 different customers, we're gonna have to place 10 different orders on our suppliers' websites. Now just like the product importing, one or two is fine, but when you start to get into the bigger numbers, it can get very time consuming. At this point, it's best to start automatically fulfilling all our orders using AutoDS. Our order automation process is super simple to use and keeps you as well as your customer updated the entire way. So what's gonna happen is once your customer places the order on your website, AutoDS is gonna either use its automatic order fulfillment or it's fulfilled by AutoDS feature and fulfill your customer's order.  Now you can track the entire process here on your orders page in AutoDS. As you can see, you have a few that are shipped, a few that are pending, one that was canceled and a few other orders with their respective statuses. Now that that's done, orders are fulfilled, tracking numbers are sent out. The next thing is to provide the best possible customer service that you can. If somebody has any issues with their products, if there's an issue with the delivery, the shipping, they don't like it or maybe it's broken, you always wanna respond to those emails as quickly as you can. Always stay in constant contact with your customers because they always appreciate that. If you can get back to them fairly quick, usually within 24 hours, customers are always very satisfied. Typically, they don't like waiting more than a day to be able to hear back from you. Now that we know the key steps to starting our successful gift drop shipping business, now let's start talking about the suppliers that we recommend over at AutoDS. Before I do start to count on though, I wanna quickly mention that I have a cheat sheet where I incorporate everything that I talked about in this video so that way you can easily reference. If you want access to that cheat sheet, all you have to do is comment down below hashtag gifts 2023 along with what types of gifts you're gonna be selling. Are they gonna be for Mother's Day, Father's Day, Christmas, overall just general gifts? Let me know down in the comments below and I'll reply back with access to the cheat sheet. Kicking off this list at number one is none other than AliExpress UK. AliExpress UK has an insane amount of products on there. They have an endless amount of different products, different gifts for different occasions. Just stay away from things like this, Disney, Marvel, Pokemon, just try not to sell any branded products. But aside from that, you're never gonna be running out of items to sell. You see like they have this Mickey one over here. Try to stay away from branded products. A lot of the times selling things like this can potentially land you in some legal trouble. So it's just best to stay away from that. Go with a few different options that are a bit more generic.  And as you can see, AliExpress also has some very affordable pricing. So it makes it easier to price your items a lot more competitively. AliExpress also has warehouses in the UK.  And as we covered earlier, and as we all know, customers love getting their items quickly. They don't like waiting more than a week or two to get their products. Next up in our second spot, we have Amazon UK. Now, Amazon is known by absolutely everyone. They have an insane amount of product options and they have absolutely amazing customer service with extremely fast shipping. Best thing is they also have warehouses conveniently located in the UK. So your customers are gonna be getting their orders pretty much next day or within two days, especially if you're using Amazon Prime. Best thing is they have local warehouses in the UK. So your customers are gonna be getting their orders fairly quick, usually within the week. In our third spot, we have eBay UK. On eBay, you can find just about anything. You can use eBay to either sell your items or as a supplier. And as you can see, just searching up watches, there's a ton of different items on here that are perfect for gifts. Now, there's gonna be a variety of sellers on eBay just like there's a variety of items. So when you're choosing the different items that you wanna sell, you wanna make sure that you're purchasing from a seller that is located in the UK. That's gonna ensure quick shipping and happier customers. On top of that, eBay has awesome customer service whether it be from the different sellers or eBay themselves and they have the buyer seller protection program. So if anything goes wrong with an order, whether it be on the seller side or the buyer side, you can contact eBay and they'll help fix the issue. Up next in our fourth spot, we have Wayfair UK. Wayfair UK has a ton of different products. And when I say a ton, I literally mean a ton. They have over 15 million different products from over 11,000 different sellers around the entire world. Now, when using Wayfair as a supplier, you really wanna take advantage of their MyWay program. Their MyWay program gives you access to tons of different items that aren't available to the general public and it also gives you access to free and same day shipping. Another good thing about Wayfair is that they have a lot of high ticket items which translates to higher profits. In our number five spot, we have Banggood UK. Banggood UK is primarily a Chinese supplier, but they have warehouses all around the world. They have warehouses in the UK and have a huge selection of low-cost items. One of the best things about them though is the fact that they have exclusive deals as well as cashback options.  Now they also offer non-branded package or they ship blindly, which pretty much just means that the customer is gonna receive their item in a blank package. They're not gonna know where you purchased it from. They're not even gonna know that you purchased it from somebody else and dropship. They're gonna think that it's coming from one of your warehouses. In our sixth spot, we have Costway UK. Now this is one of those new ones that I'm pretty sure you probably haven't heard about. So let's look into them a little bit. Costway offers white label products, which means you can brand the products as your own. You can get in contact with Costway and have them print your logos either on the products or the packaging. So this really helps you start building brand awareness. Costway is a company that has dropshipping in mind. So they actually have a dropshipping program as well. As a dropshipper, you're able to join their dropshipping program with a few extra features. For one, you can get free to day shipping, wholesale pricing and up to a three month warranty on the products. Now personally, I think that three month warranty is absolutely amazing, especially for the higher ticket items. In our seventh spot, we have Vita XL UK. Vita XL actually has over 90,000 different products and they have this particular dropshipping program called the Dropshipping XL. The Vita XL program gives you access to free shipping as well as translation to over 20 different languages for your products. So let's say we wanna sell this little dog over here in a few different markets, we can have the listing and the title translated to a bunch of different languages. In our number eight spot, we have DHgate UK. Over here at DHgate, you have a bunch of different items all at some pretty affordable prices. You also have access to wholesale pricing as well as UK warehouses. So you can rest assured that you're gonna be getting some quick shipping for your customers. Just typing in the word gifts gives you a ton of different items. So you know that using DHgate, you're always gonna have a new item to be able to offer. Now all of the suppliers that I just spoke about are compatible with AutoDS. So using any of the previously mentioned suppliers, you're able to benefit from automation. Remember that implementing automation into our stores can save us a ton of time that we can reinvest to be able to keep scaling. Now the suppliers that I'm about to mention are unfortunately not supported by AutoDS, but they're still worth a look because they have some pretty good options. So to continue this list at number nine, we have AW Dropship. Now in order to use AW Dropship, you do have to register for an account with them. Luckily though, that's completely free. Now AW Dropship does have a minimum order quant while it's not the best for drop shippers since we're not really keeping any inventory. Having a minimum order quantity alone just means that we can't order just one product. So as I mentioned, as a drop shipper, it's not really convenient to have a minimum order quantity pretty much at all. But what we can do to overcome something like this is instead of having our listings offering one item, we can have listings that offer multiple items or bundled items. Now a really cool thing about AW Dropship is the fact that they have a two year warranty on their products, except for consumables. So if you have any issues with your products a year down the line, you can contact them and they'll help you out. AW Dropship manufactures all of their products in the UK.   Up next at our number 10 spot, we have Pucketer. Pucketer, as you can tell just by looking at their homepage is a website that has a ton of different gifts. Now just like our previous supplier, you do have to register for an account with them in order to be able to use them as a supplier, but it's free, so there's no issues there. They also offer a wholesale program which gives you better prices to all of their products, but they have a minimum order quantity of 100 pounds. Now this isn't a huge issue because ultimately it ends up paving the way for higher profits. All we have to do is just start focusing on some higher ticket items and bundled items. They also have three day shipping in the UK, so your customers are gonna get their orders fairly quick. Now in our 11 spot, we have something a bit different and that's something different. With something different, you're gonna have a wide variety of products ranging from fragrances to soaps to jewelry and more. They offer quick shipping, which is typically between three to five days and also offer express shipping. They have some competitive pricing and they also have some awesome customer service. And if you order over 35 pounds, you qualify for free shipping. In our number 12 spot, we have a trusted wholesale supplier named UKSM Trade. UKSM offers over 6,000 high quality products and best of all, they have non-branded packaging. So when your customer receives their order, again, they're not even gonna know that you purchased it from somebody else or from a supplier. They're gonna think that you're the one that shipped it from your warehouse. UKSM also has some really high quality images attached to their products. So here we're looking at a few oil burners and you can see right away that their images are super clean, super sharp, straight to the point, no clutter, they're really high quality. When using UKSM as your dropshipping supplier for gifts, the products that you're mainly gonna be focused on that they offer is gonna be florist, sunrise, wedding and event decorations, parties and garden-specific products. In our 13 spot, four gift suppliers in the UK, we have signature gifts. For the most part, the majority of items that you're gonna find on signature gifts is gonna be books and newspapers. But the cool thing about that is you can customize them. You can customize the majority of the products with different names, images, quotes, almost whatever you want. Signature gifts also works with dropshippers to be able to provide easy bulk upload options. In our number 14 spot, we have also cherished and also cherished has over 2,000 different items that you can sell as gifts and are customizable. Now, while not all of their products are customizable, they do have a section specifically for personalized gifts. They have some really quick shipping times and as you can see, they have some very professional-looking photos. All of their product images are clean, straight to the point and really focus on the item itself. They also have a team of in-house professional designers to get your items looking as best as possible. Now last but certainly not least, in our number 15 spot, we have personalized trade gifts. As you can see, all of the different options over here, personalized trade gift has a wide variety of items for you to be able to offer. They have quick delivery. They also have professional designers to be able to get the best look on your products as possible. And for the most part, after shipping, customers tend to get their items between two to four business days. Now, these are our top 15 suppliers for gift drop shipping. Now, even though I gave you 15 different options, remember there's a lot more suppliers out there that you can look into and when you're choosing your supplier and finally settling down with one, always have a few more as a backup. Just in case something goes wrong with one supplier, maybe they run out of stock or their price fluctuates too much, you can always find the same item in a few different suppliers. So try to have a few different ones as backup. And remember that I have that cheat sheet that I made for you all. If you want access to it with all the information that I spoke about in this video, make sure to comment down below, hashtag gifts 2023 along with what type of gifts you're gonna be selling and I'll reply back with access to the cheat sheet. Huge thank you to everyone for being here with me today. Once again, my name is Mario with AutoDS. And if you enjoyed this video today, if you found it helpful, if you found it informative, make sure to subscribe so that way you don't miss out on any future videos and leave a like. Best of luck to all of you in your dropshipping businesses and I'll catch you all in the next video.


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Just gonna restart the live try to get some more people in here Let's go on to 21 22 donrush choice That is the wrong year of donrush choice I gotta get a new Can you run to the back and see if you can find 21 22 donrush choice? It's uh, it's got jaylin green on the front check the thing first and then check the cage if it's not All right, so it's got jaylin green on jack jaylin green on the front. Yes. All right got the wrong box Sorry about that guys, uh, we'll do 21 22 uh optic choice now My bad. Good luck here everybody. That's dame silver Got autos jaylin johnson rated rookie On the red mojo nice one there for the hawks Congrats to the lantha Got kendin martin jr. On the choice exclusive for the rockets And mojo diante murray 51 out of 88 spurs It's one there for the spurs Next up neemius keita going to the kings And we've got josh christopher. That's going to the rockets That'll do it for donrush choice Drop you guys the link to um Origins down to five to go guys five to go. Oh, thank you sir. Perfect Thank you sean Um, all right, we've got now 21 22 Uh donrush choice 21 22, let me just double check. Yes 21 22 Donrush choice 21 22 donrush choice. This is a uh group break right here dino So, uh, it was random team style. So all the teams cost the same. We you know random it off Depend and it depends on what box you're looking at for price wise Got jt thor alphan shengun tray murphy luke garza kori kisbert Uh autos are gonna be first is davion michel Nice one there for the kings This is the choice exclusive right here. Thanks for the likes rip and fire Followed by a Jt thor this next one's kind of nasty Nice one there for the hornets. We've got going to the clippers. How about a black gold koai Leonard? Three of eight one off jersey number go into when long congrats when long um w on that one Nice koai. That's awesome, dude Got red christian wood 44 out of 99 for the rockets And blue kira lewis jr 16 out of 49 for the pelicans. Congrats. Nola All right, we've got uh prism choice coming up now Actually, let's do select do select first 21 22 select hobby Uh Not in this break. We haven't pulled any zions. I don't believe batman No zions yet. Who's that? Empty Zion is in this and i'm sure he's in like iMac in noir. I think he has a sneaker spotlight redemption in noir There's potential. There's definitely potential. I have to soon move premier level try color Kade conningham premier level base rookie There's scope isaac stewart for the pistons Duncan Robinson Thanks for finding that by the way the choice Bones hyalin to rookie that's good good stuff. There's a zion, uh, try color chris warte There's angelo wiggins on the throwback for the timber wolves cool one that's gonna be game used as well Nice one there for the timber wolves buzman garuba silver al-horford Trey murphy silver boy on bukdonovic Devin booker there we go now. We're back up to our viewers What's going on everybody on tiktok linkin bio if you guys are interested in joining some group breaks or picking up some personals Uh tray man on the blue to 299. That's going to the thunder Jalen brown got something here J.T. Thor yannis. There's enus freedom throwback threads for the jazz. Nice one there. You talk Cool one there again going to be game used when he was a member of the utah jazz Got zac levine purple to 99 56 out of 99 moses brown scottie barnes rookie Try color russ uh russell westbrook jaylon johnson zebra one box zebra baby. Let's go. Good luck everybody We've got job Wow Boom One box zebra Wow that is going to scott app congrats scott On the case hit out of a one box in a mixer Congrats buddy. That's nasty.  We'll get that magged up for you scott.  Uh, ja got a little two sidetracked by that Nicola yokic michael porter jr. Josh giddy silver john collins and yannis court side with the likes What's with the likes We've got coming up next is 21 22 prism choice a likable stream, man Yeah Got ripping fire in here too, of course Silver wanda scano anderson It's going on the warriors got our exclusive shake milton clint capella And shea gilgis alexander's having a heck of a year, man We've got auto isael livers going to the piston sensational sakes not numbered Two numbered cars we've got eric bledso 45 out of 88 for the clippers And we've got a luka donchich 67 out of 88 for the maps nice one there mavericks luka Nice red scope there. All right next up. We've got 21. Oh jeez. I got noir photo instead of noir Wait, is it supposed to be noir photo? Well the title is noir photo What's up cowboy? What up cowboy? What are we doing? Well the title says noir photo And then the break just says noir.  It does not say noir photo on the List of boxes. So I'm just gonna go with noir hobby. I will text lane about it though All right, give me one second guys gonna wait for shawna to get back with the noir box And then we'll get going on noir Then we do have an iMac coming up after as well as two autographed basketball. So good luck to that everybody. Thank you shawna Regular noir coming up now Good luck. We got our high-end stuff coming up. Let's do it noir Again just going by what the list of Boxes are it's huge That's a huge card dude We've got Tobias Harris 79 out of 99 the Sixers Got rookie high jones 56 out of 99 And then we've got that's brandon ingram 299 that was 21 ja marantz eve 21 ja May just be right king uh james. He may just be right We've got elegant decor. That's gonna be 64 out of 75 france vagner going to the magic on the rookie jersey Yeah, I feel that steve or cowboys fan. I feel that cowboys fan Got jumbo material that is gonna be patent prichard 98 out of 99 game worn patent prichard as well. There you go. Tommy. Tommy with the C's Uh angelo linkin bio. We have breaks ranging all the way from like 30 dollars 25 dollars 20 dollars all the way up to like Sometimes we did a we did a break that was 40 thousand dollars We've got a whoops took an extra card there Greg brown five out of 75 elegant decor Followed by a denny of dia icon. This is like the insert auto private signings So it's a 21 product, but this is 2020 rookie of denny of dia We've got a nice one here seven of ten. It's gonna be josh christopher That's going to the rockets nice one there houston card the s on that one Yeah, that was like a one-time special thing though. We did what it was like 20 cases of flawless or something Was it 20? I think so Maybe more 25 30 something like that. Yeah Uh next up we've got 95 out of 99 Alex english This next card is so huge dude. This next card is insane You know made from the sopranos Wish man Dude this card's massive Geez going to austin l 24 out of 99. How about a kade cutting him sneaker spotlight? boom That is massive man.  There's a nice little look at that right there absolutely beautiful kade cutting him Sneaker spotlight we'll get that right into a mag Congrats there austin. There you go, buddy. We've got empty empty as well. All right guys. Let's do iMac 2020 2021 iMac I think they're all most of them are numbered out of 99 The sneaker spotlight and there's like out of 10 there might be an out of 49 and out of 10 and then maybe a one-on-one But yeah, the true like the true one is Half a jersey number true tommy. That's happening. You may want to one Let's do some 2020 iMac guys. Good luck everybody. Let's call a logo man Feeling a logo man out of here. Sean. I don't know about you, but I'm feeling a logo man It's a common great break dude Uh, we've got a donovan Mitchell 20 out of 25 spider Uh, they all range in price lee like some of them were probably like four or five hundred all the way up to like iMac's probably like 16 1700 Uh, next up we've got the standard that's gonna be uh, al horford Two out of 49 this next one's so sick, dude This is why I love iMac so much Nice one there for the thunder. How about going to the bowls team logo? Nikola Vusevich four of four Game worn when he was a member of the Orlando magic. Look at the patch on that thing, dude Kate sneaker sulfur 20 almost three grand on uh, really? Yeah, december 6th. Yeah Nice one there. Look at that patch, man When he was a member of the magic, this is why you I love iMac, dude these patches right here game worn on that, too So sick Next up we've got the goat going to the seas. Here you go. Tommy. How about a brian scalabrini? Seven out of 25 herald signatures the white mamba What's up mj? What's going on from m mj from nj? No, that's fine. Yeah Nice scalabrini the white mamba announcing legend This is kind of nasty seven out of 25 We've got brandon clark. That's going to the grizzlies. There you go scott. Did scott's having himself a break Scott is having himself a break Because right behind that we've got 19 out of 49 desmond bane on the rpa boom There you go scott with the grizzlies. Wow scott killing it, man Uh, there's some sort of something on the bottom there as you could see scott. We'll send you an empty box and wrapper with this one All right, you can bag that one as well empty empty on iMac Hell of a break, man Now we got two autographed basketballs So these won't be in the recap. That's why we do them last What's up frog? Very nice bane right there Hey, what's up bill? Bill k. What's up, man? I like mb. I think mb's kind of a baller. All right, we got our autographed basketballs Trying to think where he would be majority Let me look this up really quick guys. I got to see where he played majority of his career Geez I think this will go hawks. This is going to go hawks actually Play the majority of his career as a Atlanta hawk or as a st. Louis hawk. I should say If I go that far franny, I don't think he's the best player on the planet when healthy Um, we've got lenny wilkins Hall of Fame 89 lenny wilkins played a majority of his career as a st. Louis hawk That's what we go by is Majority career inscribed hall of fame 89 lenny wilkins No, he's like he's a superstar for sure now mb's apps a bona fide superstar Yeah, nice lenny wilkins there again. He played on the hawks from 60 to 68 Um, then he coached him for seven years too, so that'll go by majority to the hawks So we do go by playing career on that one. All right next one up So we got see a massive basketball here, man.  That's a good one, man Uh, first ball was lenny wilkins lenny wilkins. Uh, who's got this team? Oh bowie Don't a bowie. Yes. How about an evan mobly signed basketball? Look at that, man. Evan mobly Let's go young stud right there There's the auto so you guys can see it nice one there, man. You can see on top there. That's evan mobly With the uh fanatics inscription very very great basketball to pull right there. I have to say wilkins and now evan mobly awesome awesome awesome All right pretty solid break I would say overall guys. Let's do a quick uh recap here All right, we've got nicola busavich for the bowls. That is al-horford thunder uh, greg brown trail blazers payton pritchard, um for the celtics france vagner magic enus freedom going to the jazz as well as andrew wiggins going to the timber wolves autos we've got brandon clark for the uh grizzlies bryan scallop reany for the celtics alex english nuggets josh christopher rockets denny of dia wizards isiah livers pistons jt thor hornets davion mitchell for the um kings jalen johnson that's going to the hawks daniel o2 root for the clippers xyre williams that is for the grizzlies Great great break right here, man. We had a desmond bane rpa 19 out of 49 Going to the grizzlies Also going to the grizzlies. We had a ja marant zebra concourse case hit Crats on that man There you go scott with those two and then we had the biggest hit probably of the day so far kade cunningham sneaker spotlight rookie autograph 24 out of 99 massive hit man massive hit right there Congrats again austin with the pistons that'll do it for the break guys. Thanks again for the fill next up We're moving on the football


So, good morning. It's a pleasure to be here to moderate this panel on the future of Latin America. We have an extremely distinguished panel, starting with President Cartes Jara from Paraguay, who is the Secretary General of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, Angel Gurria, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, former Minister of Finance of Mexico, former everything. Rebeca Greenspan, who is the Secretary General of the Iber-American Organization, and then former Vice President of Costa Rica, former Minister of Everything in Costa Rica. And we have Moises Naim, who's a distinguished author and now television writer and former director of Foreign Policy Magazine, former Minister of Economic Development in Venezuela, and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. So it's a truly distinguished panel. Latin America is facing a set of challenges in its future. Some of them are endogenous, intrinsic of things that it hasn't done, things that are on its agenda, and some of them are new, associated with changing economic environment. A couple of years ago here in Davos, Moises said that Latin America was not competitive even as a threat. But apparently, Trump thinks otherwise. And now some aspects of Latin American development have become an issue in U.S. domestic policy, and we're going to talk a little bit about that in the course of the discussion, how Latin America should face that challenge, what are its options, and so on. So to start us off, I'm going to ask President Cartes, Latin America right now is having serious growth problems. There's a recession in Brazil. There's a recession in Argentina. There's an economic catastrophe in Venezuela. There's very low growth in Mexico and Colombia. But Paraguay has been growing nicely in spite of the fact that it is surrounded by two countries in recession, and you've been able to continue growing your exports, whether it's soybeans, meat, or electricity, and so you're somewhat of an island of stability in a troubled region. So I want to ask you, what's your secret and can you keep it up? Or what do you need for the region to be like for Paraguay to continue growing? Thank you very much, but I think that there is no secret about it. The last decade, we had a favorable win, as we said, and now has really changed. And all we have done is take care of our expenses. But the most important point that I feel in Paraguay has really changed internally and for outside was the transparency law that we have made. That gives us a power that we always thought that the people is really divorced from governments. And I can feel it from inside the country and outside the country that that is putting us much together. Today in Paraguay, everyone can know how much earns every public employee, how much expenses, how much money, how much benefits each one. And that is putting us closer, the people with us. There is no miracle. Today the world is changing so much. And there is no other way than we have to go. The normal question, I remember because I came from the private sector. And the usual question was, what's the difference between private sector and public sector? And today I'm finding that practically it has to be the same thing. We have to take care about the public sector exactly as we do with the private sector. We have to handle what is not our, the money, and the public property. We have to take the same care that we take with our money. Very good. Thank you very much. Angel, you are leading an international organization that's about agreed rules that everybody is supposed to abide by. We're moving into a dynamic where President Trump seems not to believe so much in rules as in deals and to get the best possible deal for his country at every turn. Do you think that international organizations have a role to play in this new world? And if so, how do you think the conflict with these two different views of rules versus deals is going to play out in the coming years? Well, even deals have to be done in the context of a minimum of rules. We've been strident to get rules for the last half century. And we've made a lot of progress on trade. We've made rules. We haven't done very well on investment, by the way. We haven't really been able to deal about investment. And now more and more deals about trade are deals also about investment because trade is, because protection is so, nominal protection in terms of tariffs is so low. Now it's about investor state. Now it's about labor. It's about environmental issues. And it's about regulations, regulations, regulations, whether before or after the customs, etc. But in the particular case of our region, I have to say that given this new wind, we'll have to see how it transforms itself once it's in office, you know, the new administration, effectively go back to the drawing board to the original homework and say, have we made enough progress on the homework? And the answer is no. The result is therefore that this year we shrunk by one, well, last year, 1%, and this year we'll be lucky if we get to 1% positive growth. So the region navigated so well during the crisis, and then is doing so poorly in the after crisis while the rest of the world is kind of catching up.  And then some countries, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, to a lesser extent Mexico, that are growing. And what is like, in a case like Mexico, why is it defending itself a little better? Well, because it made these very dramatic reforms. And now it's implementing the reforms. And now it is, in a way, enjoying the result of having taken the reforms. When did it take the reforms? It started four years ago. Now it's a 50-year government in Mexico, and they're starting now. And that's compensating for a bunch of other issues having to do with political issues and super structure. And then even the start of the political season in Mexico about, you know, the next election, et cetera. The reforms, in a way, are biting. They're counting, and they're making progress. And they are, as the president of Paraguay just said, we took the reforms, we bit the bullet, we did what had to be done, and now we are enjoying the benefit. Now there are certain things, sir, that I'm just going to say a few words. This is homework. Inequality. Informality. Productivity. Not everything ends with a TTT, but, you know, a lot of it does. The tradeoff between productivity and inclusivity, you know, or inclusiveness. Because if we focus only on productivity, we'll get it wrong. If we focus only on inclusion, it's not going to be enough. So the nexus between the two is absolutely fundamental. How about integration with itself? I mean, we've made more progress in the Alliance for the Pacific in the last two years, or three years, between Peru and Mexico and Colombia and Chile than with all the Aladi and Alalc and this and that and that, you know, for 50 years. Why? Well, there was a need, there was an opportunity, there was a leadership, there was a political courage, and so integration. Now, how about innovation? Another word, we're spending about half a percent, half a percent, 0.7 at most, in innovation. The average of the OECD is two and a half percent, moving to three, average in Sweden is three and a half percent, moving to four, average in Korea is four percent, moving to four and a half. We are competing with countries like Korea. The gap is three points of their respective GDPs per year. And that just, you know, so what are we, we're going to become employees of the Koreans, you know, I don't know, just who is spending on, you know, who is spending on the in the value added change. It is, of course, the knowledge that takes the big, the big chunk of the value added. So skills, skills, skills. Why? Because productivity has dropped, become negative in many of the countries, only starting to resurface in some of the countries, but productivity is a problem in every single major country in the world, but also in our region. And if we do not improve the skills, we're not going to have an improvement in productivity. Taxations are obviously, yes, but why also? It's not just a question of, well, incentives for productivity. With the enormous inequality, that was one of the first words I said. In Europe, in the United States, you apply taxes, you apply social security contributions, you reduce the original inequality by half. In Latin America, you apply the taxes, and you apply the social contributions, and it's like Johnny Walker, you don't see it. No effect. 3% reduction maybe in the genie rather than half. Okay? So again, that is a very, very serious structural change. So let me just finish with one issue that has to do with the last part, institutions. And when you talk about institutions, things like integrity, transparency, and the fight against corruption, why? Because what we have is not only low growth, high unemployment, growing inequalities, but a crisis of trust. Thank you very much. So there was a long smorgasbord of problems and goals. Very good. Let me ask Rebeca. And policy recommendations. Yeah. Well, titles of policy recommendations. Let me ask Rebeca. You've been organizing these meetings of Latin America where Latin America tries to think about its issues, its goals, its problems. The inter-Iber-American organization includes Spain, includes Portugal, it does not include Canada or the U.S., and in that sense, it's different from the OAS, it's different from UNASUR. But I would ask you, what are the themes that Latin America should focus on in light of the current environment in which its relations with the North will tend to be different? No, thank you. Thank you very much, Ricardo. I think that some of the things have been mentioned, but I will try to focus on the things we are focusing in the Iber-American summit. And we have put a very strong focus on education, and especially on higher education. And our problem there is the quality of education. It's not only the expansion of education that has been amazingly rapid during the last decade. Just for the people around us to have an idea, the population at the university level in Latin America has doubled in the last decade. And it's not only that it has doubled, but two-thirds of the students that are in higher education are first time in their family, still first time in their family, that somebody gets to higher education level. So you have these growing middle classes, emerging middle classes, that have gone to higher education with high expectations of getting a better job of being included in the mainstream of development, and there can be frustrated. Their aspirations will be frustrated if we don't do something about the quality of education. Because we know that the return to higher, to university education is declining in the region, precisely because quality has been lagging behind. So the division between those that have been there for a long time and those that are from the higher socioeconomic strata of the region will get the jobs and the good jobs if we don't do something to fight the gap between inequality of education. So we have been saying that the intergenerational transmission of inequality will depend on the quality of education and the access to quality education for the new middle classes, let's say, that have been getting there. Now our second point will be, our second focus will be science and technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and the focus on youth when we talk about that. And that's the report represented precisely in the summit on focusing on youth. What we have to do is not, it's true, it's not only higher education, but it's also training skills to open up the possibility of investment for the young people, etc. So that has been a very important focus of the presidents of the summit. And I would say that the third area of focus for us has been what we have to do in infrastructure and to get into the digital society. That will be an aspect of competitiveness that is very important for the region. We have to double our investment in infrastructure. We have to go to a more integrated market in terms of the digital investment in the region. So how can we help to do that? And there is not only Latin America, there, Spain and Portugal are very important because these are countries that are leading in some of the aspects that we need to get to. But it's also very important in terms of investment because in terms of infrastructure, logistics, the digital economy, those countries are very important for Latin America. And Latin America is also investing now in the Iberopitins. My last point is the whole issue of trust that has been brought, the transparency, etc. I think that that is very important because the only way in this atmosphere where we don't have really a wide fiscal space to get this investment done is with public-private association partnerships. But the problem is that the citizenship doesn't believe that these partnerships are done for the better, for the good of everybody. But these are deals between some in the private sector and some in the public sector. And I think that with the scandals that we have been seen in the region with some of the main firms, private firms that have in infrastructure, for example, that is a very important point. So the issue is how do we build up again the trust with citizenship, with the right rules and controls to really be able to do what we have to do to partner with the private sector but really fighting corruption and being much more transparent in terms of our institutions and in our framework of rules. Thank you very much. Moises, do you have also a long list of tools that you want to share or do you want to focus on a few that you think are more critical? So I want to talk about two things. Let me invite you to think about the year 2000 and imagine that today we are in the year 2000. And we have this session about the problems of Latin America. And we invite Angel Burria. Which point of his list would not have been included in the year 2000? It would have been exactly the same list and in fact at some point I smiled because as he was telling the point which is impossible to deny that are very important, I smiled because I was anticipating the point. There is a circularity to our conversations about Latin America. It is a frustrating thing for all of us to keep coming to Davos and other places and recite exactly the same five issues that always are in the list of Latin America. And Angel and others have mentioned them. Not denying their importance, growth anxiety, what are the sources of growth, volatility and so on is one macro stability always and the prescription. Be careful about your deficits, be prudent, manage your exchange rate and so on. The problem of competitiveness, low productivity, low innovation, bad education, bad infrastructure, inequality. Now we talk more about inequality because it has become fashionable in the United States and in Europe. But inequality has always been a big issue for Latin America. And then that brings us to malfunction and democracy. And then the inevitable word appears, institutions. We need to do something with institutions. Nobody knows exactly what that means. Nobody knows exactly how to really strengthen in a permanent, reliable, sturdy way the institutions. And then the perennial. Impossible to have a conversation like this without complaining about corruption. Corruption is always there. It's part of the conversation. And nothing much happens, except in certain instances and so on. So that's, for my first point, is to make an appeal to see if we can go beyond that circular repetitive list and see if we can be more granular and more specific. And that, of course, brings the heterogeneity of Latin America where the conversation at this level does not do a lot of justice to the fact that you have Haiti and Brazil and Mexico and Paraguay in the same conversation and they face very different realities. So that is what we always talk about. I want then to mention what we never talk about, which I think it's a very important issue. And that is Latin America's peaceful coexistence with murder. Latin America has 31 percent, Latin America has 8 percent of the world's population and 31 percent of the murders. Latin America is the most murderous region in the world. War zones are not as dangerous to human life as Latin America. That's an observation of fact that is undeniable. Some countries are worse than other, but murder, peaceful coexistence with murder, accepting that it's part of human nature, it's part of the human condition, that there's not much you can do about it because, you know, it's who we are. Well, that's unacceptable, but it has become acceptable in Latin America. Nobody discusses it. The other thing that we need to recognize is that governments cannot do it. It's obvious that Latin American governments don't know and don't care and or don't have the will or don't have the tools or don't have the knowledge or don't have the incentives to really deal with homicide rates. Imagine that Latin America decides that this peaceful coexistence with homicide has to end and design something like the millennium development goals in which you put numbers. Why don't Latin America decide that in the next five years the murder rate is going to be brought down to by half. We're talking about tens of thousands of murders of people that will be saved. And because governments cannot do it, it has to be a societal project where all of the institutions here in executive powers, the multilateral organizations, the church, the labor unions, the television, the soap opera writers, the universities, the military all decide that this is a very important problem and that the government cannot be left to the government, that all society has to do something about it. That is not part of the conversation. It has never been part of the conversation. It needs to become part of the conversation. Very good. Let me just mention a couple of the things that are also didn't come up in the list that were sort of like maybe implicit, but they're sort of like front page. Why are countries in the region not growing now? The ones that are not growing. Well, the ones that are not growing are not growing because they were exporting commodities. They grew while the commodity prices were high. Commodity prices have gone down, and now they cannot keep on growing because they're insufficient exports. So Latin America needs to export. In the rest of the world, countries have very specific policies to encourage exports beyond higher education, beyond general things about productivity. They have relatively directed policies. For example, Panama has just invested 7% of GDP in the expansion of the canal. That's a public investment in something related to the core export sector. They've done a lot of policies that are designed to carve out the space in the export of services. For example, Costa Rica got to move into Intel and into medical equipment devices and so on, through a targeted policy on those things. We don't have this sense of urgency that we need to act on the creation, the expansion of export activities. Without that, in the short run, we're not going to grow, in the medium term, we're not going to grow. The second one topic we have not talked about, we talk about productivity and so on, informality, but one of the things that is critical to the low productivity of Latin America is that we have some of the most inefficient cities ever. Cities that have, you know, the commute times of Latin America are the highest also, and the willingness to put public investment in creating the infrastructure so that commute times are reasonable. Well, the fact that we don't have that means that women cannot go to work because somebody has to stay home, that it means that the cost of going to work is enormous. We might as well work from home in some informal activity. So in urbanization, the quality of urban life is something where Latin America has been very limited. And the third thing that I think Latin America has been remarkably limited is that everybody complains about skills shortages. Everybody complains about skills shortages. And everybody complains about innovation and entrepreneurship. Now, when you look at the U.S., 52% of the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are foreigners. When you look at Harvard, over half of the professors are foreigners. When you look at Latin America, it has some of the most restrictive immigration policies in the world. Trump would pass Latin American immigration laws. So we are restricting our ability. He would love to be as close as 3.5% of the world's population was born outside of their home country. 1% of Latin America was born outside of their own country. And you have countries like Colombia where 0.2% of the population was born abroad. And these countries have immigration policies that are more restrictive than countries that are sexy to go to. So part of our skills shortage is our closeness, our capacity to bring people in. And this is cheap. And this is quick. So it's something that we are not currently doing. So let me go back to the panel and ask the panel for some quick wins that can be done in Latin America now that don't imply these long-term solutions with things like institutions but quick wins which are on the table now. I think that the word efficiency is really the most important word that we have to assume. As he said, Moses, probably corruption we are talking about corruption 50 years ago. But I think it's the worst enemy we have. Even when we had winning favor, now it's worse. But if we are not efficient, today is going to be much worse than before. What is doing in Paraguay and why are we growing? Because we maintain and we are trying to be more efficient every day. There is a point that I don't want to put away that what he was talking about, homicide. And it's not my words but I remember one minute, Panama's president says that today in Central America, there are more murders through the narco traffic than in all the wars around the world. And there is a mistake that we have to be honest and assume it once again. Narco traffic is a transnational crime and we don't assume it transnational. Every country is doing its best but we have to talk between countries and to act because the best crime we have where the homicides are occurring is narco traffic. And we still didn't assume that compromise to face them. But I think the word is efficiency and productivity, skills. We feel that. We are very proud of our population. We got very many young people. Again, 74% of our population are less than 35 years old. And they need skills. We are very lucky that the industry that are coming into far away, they teach them and our young people learn very fast. But definitely we have to assume that education skills are not tremendous that we have. I'm sorry we're boring, Moises. But frankly, what he said is pretty dramatic. It's also true and that is why we have to keep at it. We have to keep repeating these things because they change. The headlines are the same but the nature and the urgency because there are some progress and there is some progress. There is some transformation. There are some anti-corruption laws that are put in place. There is some battle against drug traffickers. But we just have to keep integration, the question of productivity, the question of if we do not attend to the fundamentals. And we have not because we had a wonderful ride at least before the crisis hit. Even after the crisis hit the raw materials kept very high. So we kept the ride going on. Every time we've had the ride we forgot about the fundamentals and we did not focus on the fundamentals. So we must come back even though they're boring. You're saying these are not quick wins. These are long-term processes. I want some quick wins. Yeah but I'm going to say I absolutely don't agree with you that you tell us that there's a quick win idea. I think this is slogging. We're going to slog it. We're going to go through it. It's 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration because we know what has to be done. There are things like crime. I remember we were asked why was it that in 1968 in France one people died because they were watching the parade from the floor from a roof and they fell or something like that. And in Mexico about you know officially 500 people died and perhaps more. Malro said because in Mexico the death was always there. It's fantastic you know but it is also about the nature. There are some of the problems that we're fighting but also the fact that we are now so I think you said cities, cities, cities. We are the only region in the world where we became fully urbanized without becoming industrialized. Fully urbanized before becoming developed. And what we have is that the cities are part of the problem now because of the sprawl and because of all the you know the human implications, the economic implications, the productivity implications, the services implications of cities sprawling. But I would go back to the fundamentals and even peculiar fundamentals. Skills, yes, innovation absolutely but innovation if badly handled in the case of countries like Latin America can fire or displace 40% of the low skilled population that we have you know and therefore how does one deal with things like innovation to make it a leverage for growth and development rather than a threat to the low skilled working class. Do you have some quick wins? I have some quick wins but I will make two comments before. One is I don't agree with Moises either. I think that the point that Moises made about murders and violence is a very important one. I don't deny it. Most of those murders are between gangs. If you think about Caracas maybe not but if you think about what Mala Salvador and Honduras is between gangs when there was a peaceful agreement between in Mexico yes when you when Salvador went into a peaceful agreement between gangs the murder rate just dropped and when we had lost to contain arms small arms also the murder rate dropped but it's very difficult to have a sensible arms loss when you have the frontier in Mexico where you can just get any weapon you want in in the site of the of the U.S. So I go to your point that is yeah we will need more than only our countries to really fight you know the the criminal rates in in Latin America we need the U.S. and we need to engage with the U.S. in a meaningful a conversation that doesn't seem to be in the agenda but but that's a very important point. This is not a quick win but I think that is very important but you put it like you know the whole society has been and I think that the narcotraffic and human traffic is a very very difficult transnational crime and we have to have a much more help also in that transnational setting to really fight crime but my second point with Moises is that you put like nothing happens since 2000 because we have the same agenda and it's not true let me give you an example quality of education has been always important but in the agenda quality of education was not really very high access to education was very high but not quality of education there was disbelief that if you want the first you have access and then you have quality and now we have to put them together and we know that I really think that your your very half a half empty a glass is a bit biased but let me go to the quick wins gender equity yeah give women a chance in in Latin America put them in management positions really high management positions in the private sector give them the same salary for same education with men and you will have a drop in poverty and much more a really hiking productivity and that's that's a quick win that's not too hard to do you it's hard culturally but quick in the sense that you have the talent there you have the people there you have everything you need but you have to take really action for gender equity second second win mobility intra-regional mobility of talent and that's something we are working on for students for firms for a and we call it talent mobility in iber america that's a very very high in the agenda we are working very hard with the migration institutions and with the with the private and in the public sector i think that we will get something done there and third quick win the whole investment infrastructure and logistics because we know more or less what what we have to do we know where to do it and we know that we have to do it locally we have to do a lot of investment in cities and i think that one point that the region has a is much better now than it was before is that now we have elected governments at the local level at the local level so we have very good leadership also at the city level so if we are able really to empower the cities to make the investment infrastructure that we need i think that we can have very quick wins there also so three things thank you in moises i i i want to go to the audience but i'm not going to let you go before you tell us something about some of the lessons that latin america should take and some of the responsibilities that latin america should consider regarding the economic and social and political catastrophe in venezuela what are the lessons one of the lessons is that we always think when when we say failed state we think of a very very very poor country probably somewhere in africa landlocked without resources and here we have a very large country venezuela that has the largest reserves of oil in the world that has all the trappings of modernity the skyscrapers and infrastructure and banks and everything it looks like a modern country but in fact today i think objectively you could say that venezuela is a failed state the government the state is incapable of discharging the basic functions that a state has to perform and so that's a surprise and it's very interesting and sad because it's very difficult to fix the second lesson is that the the stealthiness of of autocracy these days it has become very fashionable even for dictators to try to look like democrats that is why latin me put it has elections and has the duma and has all of the choreography of democracy but in fact we know that russia is a highly highly centralized autocratic nation and the same is in venezuela for many years ugo chaves got away with the notion that that was a democracy that elections were being held all the time that they had a congress and the independent media and the independent judiciary and none of that was true really uh those were captured co-opted or institutions by the central government that essentially uh converted venezuela in what is a post modern 21st century autocracy that hides behind a mask of democracy so the stealthiness uh of autocracy in the 21st century in and that's not just true in venezuela i think we can see it in a lot of countries where democracy is uh it it would be hard to really think of them as democracies where the checks and balances and free and fair elections sort of take place but they get away with being perceived like that the third and very sad one of course is to discover how complacent in different bystandings is the international community uh if you want to be really really cynic about venezuela venezuela is undergoing a human humanitarian crisis of the first order venezuela belongs with Haiti in terms of the disaster the human disaster that is taking place but that is not part of the conversation that is not known and if you want to be very cynic as i was saying you could argue that venezuela had the bad luck of having to compete with syria and the refugee crisis uh if we if we did not have syria and the refugee crisis perhaps the media and the leaders of the world and of latin america would have paid more attention to a country where all of this is happening where they are detaining uh political the political opposition and torturing people and and people are literally starving um and and and the differences especially sad for uh for venezuelans who who helped other latin american countries at the time in which they were under uh dictatorships and now we see some of them are in government and we cannot get them to act uh there's a very specific case there in chile president bachelet would would be very helpful if she can help free some political prisoners some of whom i have to say that ricardo's houseman's brother-in-law is in jail and he's a journalist his crime is to have posted a video of a group of people in a village protesting against president maduro next thing that happened uh bravo hattar this is his name uh has been jailed uh and impossible and we have been trying and ricardo's family has been trying to get uh people like the chileans that were given uh refuge in venezuela during the worst time and we have not been able to to mobilize the latin american community i'm sorry if i'm being very granular and specific about this uh but i think granularity is deserved in this case okay thank you um before we go to the audience i have uh one quick win uh and in an amazing success story and that has very positive externalities for the region uh prodigo janiot the prosecutor general of brazil is in the audience uh he's led the car wash investigation in brazil and now there's a lot of information coming out about corruption in latin america in quantities that we would not have imagined before and with detailed information that provides a lot of uh possibilities for the fighting corruption in the rest of the region so i want to ask him to to say a few words thank you mr hausman to the opportunity to say two words here my english is very limited so i will speak in portuguese and my colleague helped me in translation it's a big challenge for our institution to face those threats in the moment of the fight against corruption in brazil brazil whether it's from the public ministry whether it's from the judiciary taking into consideration what said mr president of paraguay and mr guria from all ecd these achievements of the brazilian prosecution service is due to the independent independence and autonomy of the prosecutors in brazil and the judges the courts as well is the brazilian public ministry works in a transparent way with integrity and efficiency in the application of the norms that we have for the fight against corruption the prosecutors in brazil try to work with integrity transparency to enforce the brazilian laws and the rule of law in our country i would like to stress two main points which allowed us to to advance in our fight the independence and autonomy of the ministry the public prosecution service in brazil before the government and the cooperation between the latino-american public ministries i quote an example of the paraguayan ministry an intense cooperation that we have and also in the scope of the iberan of the iberan american organizations this cooperation has been intense what has allowed us to evolve in this case one very important point is the international cooperation between the prosecutorial agencies in the region for example we have a paraguayan public ministry of paraguayan and we have the iberan american countries which allow us to pursue this but at least the importance of international cooperation in illegal matters for fight those kinds of crimes and the important role of the public prosecution in switzerland to help us to find out funds public funds in belzel and hidden in foreign accounts abroad thank you thank you very much it's being very exciting to watch and it's even very instructive to see how the information generated in brazil how different countries respond to it see where they act on it yes we can very good very good a remarkable example in the region so let me open up to the audience so let me start over there can you present yourself and hasm galal from price waterhouse cooper's i want to follow up on the the point about devolution of power to cities and mayors i mean there are some bright spots like midi gene like like maringa in brazil and i want some feedback from the panel about giving more budgetary powers to the mayors rather than the national level of the state and is this going to work under the current frameworks or is this decentralized corruption okay let me let me take a couple of questions so we get more participation here yes thank you to gato nelson cunningham with the clardy associates in the waning days of the obama administration we're hearing more about the opening toward cuba and the administration has touted the opening toward cuba as having led to a new era of good feeling between latin america and the united states that may or may not be overstated but looking ahead to the trump administration who have announced that they would wish to roll back at least some of the opening and looking at the names of the people who've been floated who might have latin american policy it's quite possible that it will be rolled back my question for the panel is how damaging would that be for us latin american relations to have that move back thank you thank you my name is wei pang i work in agribusiness we source a lot of agricultural commodities from the region and my question is for mr president of paraguay because we've seen a slight pickup of deforestation rates in in some neighboring countries of yours such as brazil probably because of the current economic pressures while we see in your country you have managed very well the deforestation rates and you have also achieved an increase in your commodity exports so do you have any advice for your neighbors on how to balance these two demands and how to better manage their natural resources hi my name is synthia i'm a global shaper from the san jose hub in costarica and i wanted to hear a little bit more about something that miss rebecca rinspen mentioned about gender equity we're speaking about economic growth for latin america and the last mckinsey's studies of the power of parity shows that if latin america mimics at least the the woman participation that chile has for 2025 we would have a 14 percent of gdp growth and if we managed to close the gap totally we would have a 34 4 percent of of gdp growth and also the numbers show that we're having less children in latin america more more women are are the head of the households so all the data is showing that economic growth has to do with with gender and i would like to know how are we preparing in latin america what is our strategy or is is it just in the in the hands of nonprofits and the private sector but how can we be really strategical about this uh very quickly among the long list that has been mentioned low saving rate of the regions any ideas on quick fixes for that thank you okay so uh in the last two minutes of this session i'm i'm going to go around once and i don't want you to answer all of the questions i just want you to say the most interesting you have to interesting you have to say about some of the issues that were raised about one of the issues that were raised president how did you stop the deforestation now we have lost we have law that really takes care very uh with much energy we used to have a deforestation but now the the we got a ministry that really takes care and and you cannot uh we are divided in the two regions in paraguay the east side which is zero deforestation on the west side you have to have a permission and if you don't respect it's directly jail okay uh devolution decentralization it is not a panacea watch it pay close attention mr renzi added to his referendum about the senate the question of reversing devolution i think that that is why he lost the referendum i think well there may have been other things but he piled up too many things but this one he got all the people in the regions and all the governors and all mayors against because well obviously you know they probably had to disappear in the senate but the question of devolution was too much now in brazil i remember uh when uh minas Gerais uh defaulted and uh fernando rica cardoso had to uh put on the lay the responsibility that fiscal uh now all of us have legislated somehow that states municipalities cannot borrow they cannot borrow in foreign currency but they've been an explosion of local currency and in some cases bankruptcy virtual bankruptcy of uh sub-national and the problem with that is that a state cannot say one of my states went bankrupt although there isn't a legal obligation you go there and you fix it and you try to stop it so in the end you have to be very careful uh about the question of decentralization because with decentralization has to come accountability you cannot have decentralization and forget about it decentralization about the money decentralization about the resources it is about accountability accountability because it is still taxpayers money it is the taxpayers money of all the country not all the local in fact the local typically still in latin america at least do very little at racing water very little racing land tax and very little helping the government the central government's race the federal taxes so watch it be careful decentralization is not the magic word it's an only an instrument and you have to deal with it with caution rebecca just the most interesting among the questions that were asked okay first of all let me say how good it is that now in latin america we know the names of the judges and prosecutors and not the name of the generals and that's a huge quality change for the reader uh with respect to decentralization i would say only that the the the change from monarchy to feudalism is not progress so we need to really be able to balance having a nation and having accountability at the local level i think that it's not possible not to go there for more mayors responsibility and action in terms of political action many of the national leaders now come from the local leadership so it's important to think how to do it well you know it's it's deepening democracy is not formal decentralization of power and i think that that's a difference there is ways to do it well and the the the second is say i would have liked somebody to take the gender question and not only the woman in the panel but i really believe that if we can if we don't continue in the gender equity path we will lose a huge opportunity of talent and possibilities for productivity jumps and for economic growth in the region and a lot of the informality a lot of the unemployment that we are seeing a lot of the poverty we are seeing has to do with women issues so let's take the gender equity agenda central to the political discussion and not like an afterthought after we said everything then it comes gender if we do that we will we will go a long way and lastly i think that really the issue of Cuba is a very important point for the normalization of the relations between Latin America and the U.S. and what was one of the points where the whole Latin America was on one side and the U.S. was in another it would be very sad to see that that will go backward i would i would like to think that that won't happen or to make two points one is concerning your thing about quick victory so things that can be done quickly have consequences i think it's it's a good moment now to relaunch re-energize rethink the pacific alliance that was launched with great effectiveness i thought it was one of the very good initiatives in terms of integration it lost momentum and an interest as different governments came in and and and essentially thought that that was the prior previous government's problem but i think that this is high time for that initiative to to to be relaunch re-energize uh and mobilize again and perhaps include countries that in the past were very very critical uh brazil was very critical of the pacific alliance perhaps with the new government uh we you know that that could be that that can change same i read argentina so do something with the pacific alliance and that that that can be a very interesting point and my final point is it's about something that Mr. Gianniott said and also rebecca echoed and i want to to mention it it's it's it's we need to celebrate the fact that in Guatemala a president was thrown out of office for corruption in following very precise institutional constitutional legal measures in the past that was done as rebecca suggested by the military it was going to be a military coup this was done through a uh a legal process and the same is happening in in in brazil the the initiatives like vajato and others are touching the most powerful individuals of that society in the private sector in the public sector in government politicians and is being done institutionally and the same in other countries so there is a very good thing happening that is new uh that has not been discussed here in the past that that we should welcome and that is the the use of the legal system uh to to have transitions of those in power that are corrupt okay well so we've gone through a long set of issues i hope you've uh seen the diversity of things that are on the agenda of latin america and i hope to see how a lot of progress for next year's doubles on how many new things have been put on the agenda and how many new quick wins have been suggested thank you very much it's so true what moises has said that we are for so many years repeating and repeating the same uh problems the same and i think what brazil occurs i'd rather to see the future with optimist because we always talk about a stronger institution institutionality do you measure what happened in brazil with the public minister with the justice it's really historically i think that is not giving us the reason that we are repeating and repeating because they they gave an example that is really a message for the world and again the world efficiency what are we going to do if we improve our infrastructure if we improve in and skills and education but you are not competitive your people travels and goes somewhere else the country has to make the environment to use his people giving the conditions it's not we have to do all that but we have to create and and and against we have you never have to get tired and fighting again this corruption and transparency is going to be our angel thank you very much thank you