World Business Report

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The latest business and finance news from around the world from the BBC

Episodios

  • South Korea: Birth rate falls to new record low

    28/02/2024 Duración: 27min

    Economic incentives fail to boost population in the nation with the lowest fertility rate in the world. We find out why more South Koreans are deciding not to have children. Country Garden, the largest private property developer in China, is facing a winding-up petition filed in Hong Kong by a creditor. We look into the details. And Apple has reportedly cancelled its plans to build electric vehicles after a decade working on the them. We hear about the reasons that may have led them to drop the project

  • Michigan presidential primary election

    27/02/2024 Duración: 27min

    As the people of Michigan head to the polls to choose their candidates for the up-coming US election. Sam Fenwick will be looking at what drivers the states economy. We get the latest on why Nigeria is experiencing the worst economic crisis in a generation as inflation continues to soar. And the Geneva Motor Show is now taking place in the Swiss town for the first time since the Covid outbreak.

  • Nigerians take to the streets over soaring food and fuel prices

    27/02/2024 Duración: 27min

    Trade unions begin two days of protests across the country against president Bola Tinubu's economic reforms. We find out what is happening in Africa's largest economy. Japan's population declined by nearly one million people last year, as the ageing of society gathers pace. We look into the factors that are fuelling this population crisis. And as the Cigar Festival takes place in Cuba, we get the latest on this luxury industry.

  • Review of the year - 2021

    24/12/2021 Duración: 27min

    The big event of 2021 that will shape economies all over the world for decades to come was the COP 26 climate conference in Glasgow in November. The meeting saw a deluge of promises, but what was actually achieved? Martin Webber speaks to Tim Gould, chief energy economist at the International Energy Agency and economist Irwin Stelzer, from the Hudson Institute in the United States. It was another boom year for the pharmaceutical industry as it crafted the vaccines that have saved so many lives. Of the 8 billion coronavirus vaccinations worldwide, one billion have been delivered by the US logistics company, UPS. We hear from Wes Wealer, President of UPS healthcare. And small business owners have had a bleak time for much of the past year. But many of those that have survived now feel optimistic. We hear from the owner of the Aroma speciality coffee shop in Bologna in Italy, Cristina Caroli, about her year.

  • Review of the year - 2020

    25/12/2020 Duración: 27min

    Covid-19 is set to prompt radical long term changes to how we live and work, so what lessons can be learnt when we eventually emerge from the pandemic? Could the changes in the way we work herald higher productivity and happier people in the future? We hear the stories of the people who managed to thrive during a very difficult year, including the milkman who saw a boom in deliveries and the dancer who found work in South Korea when the London stage went dark. Martin Webber is joined by Professor Devi Sridhar who holds the Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh; economist Roger Bootle, of Capital Economics; Robert Reich, former Labour Secretary under President Clinton; Tomas Philipson, who was Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under Mr Trump; and actor Thomas Inge who is currentl starring in the musical Cats in South Korea.

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