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• Greek exit? 16 May 12

  Wed, 16 May 12

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  How much money is flowing out of southern Europe because of a possible Greek exit from the eurozone? Lesley Curwen talks to economist Gabriel Stein from Lombard Street Research. Plus Carl Elsener, CEO of Victorinox, talks about the Swiss Army knife without a blade. And technology commentator Jeremy Wagstaff argues that new technologies don't always mean the death of the old ones.

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• Food not so glorious food 15 May 12

  Tue, 15 May 12

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  What can a lunch at the canteen in the BBC's World Service headquarters at Bush House in London tell us about the iniquities of world food production and consumption? Quite a lot, it turns out. Tim Lang, the world's only professor of Food Policy, and Knox Chitiyo, Africa fellow at the foreign policy think tank Chatham House, join Justin Rowlatt for a meal to discuss the politics and economics of world food. Plus - do we drive innovation or does innovation drive us?

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• Greece - in or out?

  Mon, 14 May 12

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  The influential German news weekly Der Spiegel certainly knows what it wants to happen to the eurozone: "Adieu Greece" is the headline on the latest issue. The paper argues it's time to kick the country out of the euro. It seems a full scale confrontation is on the cards. So exactly how would Greece leave the euro? Business Daily has gone back to an earlier era of European confrontation to find out. We've taken a look at the challenges of changing currency - Pathe newsreel style. And Justin Rowlatt debates the intricacies of exit with Guntram Wolff of the European economic think tank Breugel and with Andrew Walker the BBC's Economics Correspondent. Plus - how do you know when you've met a truly powerful woman? It's pretty simple, according to our regular commentator Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times.

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• BizDaily:In the Balance: Eurozone contagion?

  Sat, 12 May 12

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  How far will the economic troubles of the eurozone affect the rest of the world? Are developing economies being hit by contagion from the Eurozone? Join Justin Rowlatt and guests: Elsie Kanza, Head of Africa at the World Economic Forum, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay an economist at the University of London, Andrew Norton who is the research director at the Overseas Development Institute, and Goolam Ballim, Chief Economist and Global Head of Research for the Standard Bank Group to discuss the fallout from Europe's economic troubles.

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• Is the IMF in too deep?

  Fri, 11 May 12

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  With renewed fears this week over Greece's future within the eurozone, we ask a former IMF chief economist, Simon Johnson, if the Fund has pledged too much of the world's money to countries that can't pay it back. Also a leading British cyber-policeman, Mick Jameson of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, tells us about the challenges of battling fraud on the Internet. And there's a new oil boom in Kenya - but is this really going to benefit ordinary Kenyans or just corrupt oil-men and politicians? We hear the thoughts of the BBC's regular Kenyan commentator, Wycliffe Muga.

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• Austerity versus growth 10 May 12

  Thu, 10 May 12

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  Should debt-ridden European nations stick to austerity, or abandon it in favour of economic stimulus measures? Ed Butler and Lesley Curwen explore the argument through an unusual game of Snakes and Ladders. The austerity question is also debated by the BBC's economics editor Stephanie Flanders and diplomatic correspondent James Robbins.

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• Youth unemployment 9 May 12

  Wed, 9 May 12

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  Business Daily looks at the problem of youth unemployment around the world. Veteran Washington journalist James Srodes wonders whether America's young adults are too ready to give up job-seeking when they get rejected. Meanwhile, Lesley Curwen talks to three young entrepreneurs - start-up support advisor Luis Rivera in Madrid, software developer John Hanna in Cairo, and engineer Bhupesh Sharma in Singapore.

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• Asia and tax cheats 8 May 12

  Tue, 8 May 12

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  Is Asia's wealth gap worsening? Lesley Curwen talks to the Asian Development Bank's Assistant Chief Economist, Joseph Zveglich, about the rise of inequality. And it is estimated that India's wealthy evade $300bn in taxes each year, hiding much of it in foreign banks and zero tax regimes. Bundeep Singh Rangar is Chairman of IndusView, which helps foreign companies invest in India. He explains why tough laws to tackle tax evasion are opposed by special interests. Plus, the BBC's Katie Hunt reports from Hong Kong on how some of Asia's most powerful business dynasties are gripped by bitter succession battles.

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• Democratic deficit?

  Mon, 7 May 12

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  Can the French and Greek elections turn the tide against austerity in Europe? Former UK politician Lord Brittan describes what it's like to inherit an economic mess from a previous government. And Lesley Curwen talks to Pippa Malmgren, President of Principalis Asset Management, Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis, Director of the European Studies Centre, and Sean Taylor, the director and co-founder of software company Content Guru.

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• In the Balance: Dying newspapers? 05 May 12

  Sat, 5 May 12

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  The capo di tutti capi of the world's media moguls, Rupert Murdoch, has been the subject of much press coverage this week with a claim that he's not a fit person to run an international corporation but that isn't the biggest threat his nespaper business faces. Justin Rowlatt and his guests, Carla Buzasi UK editor of the Huffington Post. Kalpana Sharma, a former editor of the Mumbai edition of the Hindu, and Tom Rosenstiel of the Pew Research Centre in the USA discuss whether press barons like Mr Murdoch are an endangered species. Should we care if they face extinction? Plus why free online news isn't really free at all.

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