Business Daily: Episodes
The BBC's economics correspondent, Andrew Walker, reports from the Austrian capital, Vienna, where the global banking industry is discussing its future in a sober mood. The Institute of International Finance, the lobbying body for bankers, is looking at the prospect of tougher regulation and the need ...
Business Daily comes from the noise and bustle of Nigeria's commercial hub Lagos. Nigeria is afflicted with electricity blackouts and awesome road gridlock. How does business manage? And how do customers end up paying for it?
Business Daily comes from Benin in west Africa. There's a debate there about whether democracy has delivered prosperity or whether the Chinese way - and Chinese money - is better. Bread or freedom? Or both? Plus how might voodoo improve your business?
Diamonds may delight the eye, but they have also helped to fuel bloody conflicts. It's ten years now since the first attempts were made to stamp out the trade in what are known as 'blood diamonds', which are mined in order to make money to fund wars or violence. Its called the Kimberley Process. Has ...
As crude oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, the criticsm of BP rises. But if the world wants oil do we have to pay a price for it? Lesley Curwen speaks to John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil Company in the US, and author of 'Why We hate Oil Companies'.
And the woman who was known ...
And the woman who was known ...
We look at why international mining companies are willing to spend large sums on building infrastructure such as railways in Africa. The BBC's Elizabeth Blunt reports from Liberia.
Plus Lesley Curwen talks to Paul Seabright, professor of economics at the Toulouse School of Economics in France, who believes ...
Plus Lesley Curwen talks to Paul Seabright, professor of economics at the Toulouse School of Economics in France, who believes ...
Steve Evans reports from Ghana on west Africa's Atlantic coast.
He talks to Edwin Philips a local entrepreneur who sells wet weather clothing and has benefited from the oil boom and to a Paramount Chief on his fears and hopes from the oil discovered off the shores of his land.
Plus how the oil boom ...
He talks to Edwin Philips a local entrepreneur who sells wet weather clothing and has benefited from the oil boom and to a Paramount Chief on his fears and hopes from the oil discovered off the shores of his land.
Plus how the oil boom ...
Business Daily comes from west Africa where the BBC has hired a bus to go from Ivory Coast to Nigeria. Steve Evans talks to a teacher who also farms the family's small rubber farm, and hears from Jean Louis Billon, president of Ivory Coast's chamber of commerce on the economic consequences of roadblocks.
The man who fought corruption in Nigeria and fled with gun-shots ringing in his ears explains why he plans to return. And we hear why feed-back at work doesn't do any good.
We take a look at the business book industry. Sometimes it seems there are as many books as there are businesses out there, but do they actually serve a purpose? And do you need business training to succeed? Lesley Curwen speaks to veteran business journalist Peter Day, self-confessed business book collector ...
Europe's debt crisis is making waves across the world economy, and China especially has reason for serious concern. The European Union is China's biggest trading partner, and many firms which depend on European orders for their goods are getting worried about whether demand will fall off, as it did after ...
How keen-eyed customers could keep banks in order. A big financier has a radical proposal to stop them going off the rails. Sir Martin Jacomb thinks that if depositors lost money when banks failed, then they would watch the banks' executives more keenly. Sound banks would be attractive banks. And Puffin ...
Business Daily comes from Brussels the heart of crisis-hit Europe. European Commissioner Olli Rehn the man who's been at the epicentre of the euro crisis, tells Lesley Curwen that Europe's social welfare systems could be put under threat if public debt continues to rise. Tim Adams of the Lindsey Group ...
Governments and companies want to control the net. For example, Apple controls the iPhone and restricts the ability of outside creators to put their own software on it. Professor Jonathan Zittrain at Harvard Law School wonders if the original ethos of the worldwide web is under threat. Plus Jane ...
Governments and companies want to control the net. For example, Apple controls the iPhone and restricts the ability of outside creators to put their own software on it. Professor Jonathan Zittrain at Harvard Law School wonders if the original ethos of the worldwide web is under threat. Plus Jane ...
The banks have blown it - so what next? Business Daily explores new forms of finance after the crash: person to person lending and banks without speculation.
Steve Evans talks to the founder of a new bank in Germany which plans only to borrow and lend. It intends to make money in the old-fashioned way ...
Steve Evans talks to the founder of a new bank in Germany which plans only to borrow and lend. It intends to make money in the old-fashioned way ...
Business Daily today talks to three of the world's top women computer engineers. They tell us how they bucked the male trend in the industry. And we ask, what is Plan B for Greece?
Greeks are upset by Greek government cuts but why exactly should the rest of us take notice?
The main problem is that banks outside Greece bought Greek bonds and that puts them in hock, according to Brian Caplen, the Editor of the The Banker.
It's also not just the straightforward matter that banks ...
The main problem is that banks outside Greece bought Greek bonds and that puts them in hock, according to Brian Caplen, the Editor of the The Banker.
It's also not just the straightforward matter that banks ...
As BP deals with the oil spill in the Gulf, Chris Bones, the Dean of Henley Business School in Britain, and who was himself a former oil executive, tells us when out-sourcing works. What should companies keep in-house and what should they get other specialist companies to do? Plus what comes to mind ...
Today we look at Turkey's economy not its neighbour, Greece. It went through terrible economic times a decade ago. The BBC's Jonathan Head reports from Istanbul, on what did they did right to recover.
Also Lesley Curwen speaks to Ugo Panizza, the chief of the debt and finance unit of the United Nations ...
Also Lesley Curwen speaks to Ugo Panizza, the chief of the debt and finance unit of the United Nations ...