Business Daily

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Recent episodes (5)

• Cash for Forests 10 Nov 09

  Tue, 10 Nov 09

  Duration:
  19 mins

  Brazil's Finance Minister Guido Mantega says the old industrial countries must help pay if they want Brazilians to stop de-forestation. Forests soak up carbon dioxide, mitigating its harmful effects. But is he right, and how would a compensation scheme work? Plus, hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go. What will the Chinese think of a Disney theme park in Shanghai?

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• Capitalism after the fall of the wall 09 Nov 09

  Mon, 9 Nov 09

  Duration:
  19 mins

  Twenty years after the fall of the Wall, Business Daily reports from the old East Germany on whether Western promises that the East would flourish have been fulfilled Lucy Hooker takes a tour around Dresden, the capital of Saxony. And Lucy Kellaway wonders if drug dealers make perfect business gurus. They manage cash flow and zero interest rates so well: lessons from the world of rap.

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• Ostalgie 06 Nov 09

  Fri, 6 Nov 09

  Duration:
  19 mins

  Business Daily goes behind the old Iron Curtain to sample business life twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. We'll talk to East German consumers who like East German goods. Steve Evans talks to a Hungarian who's done nicely from capitalism - but fears that his fellow citizens just don't get it. And John Cassidy of the New Yorker unravels the US economy.

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• Guinea 05 Nov 09

  Thu, 5 Nov 09

  Duration:
  19 mins

  In Business Daily today a special insight into the complex back room dealings of a government battling for its political survival. We are in Guinea, West Africa which is resource rich but cash poor, where they recently announced a $7 billion mining deal, but is the deal worth the paper it's written on and can the economy survive international condemnation?

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• Thinking Inside The Box 4 Nov 2009

  Wed, 4 Nov 09

  Duration:
  19 mins

  The BBC has tracked a shipping container for a year. It's now home, sitting in a car-park at BBC headquarters, and we broadcast from inside. Hear the box's story as it crossed the planet, carrying everything from bathroom scales to cat food. What does its journey to Shanghai, Los Angeles, New York, Yokohama and Brazil say about world trade? How did our planet come to have a single sized container for trains, ships and trucks and in all parts of the world? And what does happen when containers from China reach Europe and America full of Chinese exports but have nothing to return with? Business Daily broadcasts from inside the BBC box with answers to all these questions and we hear from Marc Levinson who wrote "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger".

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