Business Daily Episodes Episode guide
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Business in countries that don't exist
How do you build an economy in a country that most of the world doesn't recognise?
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Is $1,000,000,000,000 enough?
The IMF increased its lending firepower to $1 trillion this weekend, but is that enough?
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Shadow banking
Regulators fear the next crisis could emerge from the unregulated shadow banking sector.
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Economics and the French presidency
Why isn't the state of the French economy a bigger issue in the presidential campaign?
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Denmark's green energy plans
Denmark to produce a third of its energy from renewable sources by the end of the decade.
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Dr Jim Yong Kim - New president of the World Bank
An interview with Dr Jim Yong Kim - is he the right leader for the World Bank?
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French elections
Nicolas Sarkozy's bid to be French President for a second term. Plus, banks and ethics.
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Credit ratings agencies
How are credit rating agencies reacting to EU moves to shake up their industry?
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Italy's labour laws
Italy's attempts to reform arcane labour laws which underpin the 'job for life' culture.
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World Bank Leadership
The stakes are high in the race to lead the World Bank. Plus, the Titanic industry.
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Russia and the BRICS
Should the BRICs become the BICs - does Russia's economy not belong?
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The cashless society
Do you carry cash? Business Daily looks at the cashless society.
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Economics: The Imperial Science?
Is economics posing as a science so that it can encroach on other academic disciplines?
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World Bank leadership
How would Nigerians react if their finance minister won the leadership of the World Bank?
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Murdoch empire
How will global investors react to the latest blow to the Murdoch media empire?
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Aspiring China
The growing market for business books among Chinese entrepreneurs hoping to get rich.
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ECB policy concerns
Former ECB board member Juergen Stark says he resigned over its policy of bond-buying.
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Rewarding whistleblowers
In the US whistleblowers now get cash incentives, will more come forward?
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Burma opens for business
The prospects for business in Burma and, do Chinese communists make the best capitalists?
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China's new leaders
How might China's new leadership change the way its markets work?
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South Africa's Dilemma
Can South Africa rise to the challenge of being a Brics country?
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Hot jobs
Why the smartest young people in the Gulf states want jobs in the public sector.
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23/03/2012
The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.
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Out of Africa?
Food production needs to rise 70% by 2050, are giant foreign farms in Africa the answer?
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22/03/2012
The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.
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Of hay and humanity
Will smartphone apps be as important in the development of civilisation as hay?
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21/03/2012
The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.
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Taxing times for Greece and Portugal
Will cutting five out of every six Greek tax collectors solve Greece's economic crisis?
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20/03/2012
The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.
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The secret of German Success
German unemployment is at a 20 year low, the deficit is down and exports up 10%. Why?