BBC World Service - Business Daily

Is the Panic Over?

Are forecasts of global crisis exaggerated? Plus Jamaican recovery and working too hard.

Why are economists so bad at forecasting a downturn? Are markets any better?

How to make a living out of posting your own videos online

Radium, polonium and radon sound frightening, but are they actually useful for anything?

Feminism: Its role in the workplace and how advertising has changed its meaning.

China's new five-year plan; carbon emissions realism; and the dying art of office pranks.

Brazil's maids, its collapsing economy, and semi-naked women at car shows.

In Ghana thousands of children are believed to work as slaves in the fishing industry

Are these notorious conflict minerals still being smuggled into and laundered in Rwanda?

Barclays is to sell off its business in Africa, ending its century-long history there