Global Business

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The Road to Zambezi Street - Part Two
Zambia has the potential to be a trade hub, if it can improve its roads and railways.
07 Sep 2013,28 mins
The Road to Zambezi Street - Part One
How Zambia is doing business, despite electricity cuts and limited access to water
31 Aug 2013,28 mins
Regenerating Margate
Peter Day asks whether Margate's Turner Contemporary art gallery will rejuvenate the town
24 Aug 2013,28 mins
Gene Patenting
Is gene patenting a good or bad thing for medical innovation?
17 Aug 2013,28 mins
North Sea Oil Part Two: Sir Ian Wood
How a family firm transformed from a fishing company to a global energy services group
10 Aug 2013,28 mins
North Sea Oil
Experts expected oil to run out by the end of 1990s but North Sea oil is still in business
03 Aug 2013,28 mins
Kenya’s Tech Hopes
Undersea cables, IT training for teachers and technology projects which could change Kenya
27 Jul 2013,28 mins
Mobile Money in Kenya
How mobile payment system M-Pesa kick-started an emerging tech econmomy in Kenya
20 Jul 2013,28 mins
Entrepreneur of the Year
Three winners from this year's Entrepreneur of the Year Awards explain how they started
13 Jul 2013,28 mins
Paul Ormerod
Economist and author Paul Ormerod on the complexity of economics
06 Jul 2013,28 mins
Designs For Life
'Design thinking' - and why it is becoming fundamental to the way organisations function
29 Jun 2013,28 mins
Breakthrough Designs
Peter Day attends the Design of the Year Awards to see how design is evolving everywhere
22 Jun 2013,28 mins
Vorsprung Durch Technik or Universitat?
Where is German innovation and why are so few of its universities ranked as world leaders?
15 Jun 2013,28 mins
St Gallen Symposium, Switzerland
Politicians, business leaders and students gather at the 43rd St Gallen Symposium
08 Jun 2013,28 mins
New Dimensions
Peter Day hears from the pioneers of the rapidly-advancing world of digital manufacturing.
01 Jun 2013,28 mins
Strike up the Broadband
How important is fast internet access to small businesses around the world?
25 May 2013,28 mins
Job Search
Peter Day and a panel of experts help unemployed young people with their job search.
18 May 2013,28 mins
Feeding the Nine Billion
Peter Day hosts a round table discussion examining the future of food production.
11 May 2013,28 mins
Potash of Gold
Peter Day reports on plans to build a potash mine in a national park in northern England.
04 May 2013,28 mins
The Sick Note
Illness at work - and the implications it has for workers around the world
27 Apr 2013,28 mins
Skoll World Forum: Disrupting Big Finance
Peter Day presents a debate about disrupting big finance at the annual Skoll World Forum.
20 Apr 2013,28 mins
Battle of the Business Schools
Peter Day examines the rivalry between two Boston business schools - Harvard and MIT.
13 Apr 2013,28 mins
Productivity Puzzle
Peter Day examines what is behind the mystery of the productivity paradox.
06 Apr 2013,28 mins
Race Against the Machine
Peter Day goes to MIT to discuss what the rise of the robots will mean to all of our lives
30 Mar 2013,28 mins
Mahindra & Mahindra
Peter Day talks to Anand Mahindra about how M&M's story mirrors modern India.
23 Mar 2013,28 mins
India Identity
Peter Day looks at India’s attempt to give each citizen get an individual identity.
16 Mar 2013,28 mins
India Economy
The Indian economy is stalling. Peter Day examines the implications.
09 Mar 2013,28 mins
Ageing in Japan
Peter Day reports from Japan on the effects of their ageing population.
02 Mar 2013,28 mins
Growing Old
The challenges caused by an ageing population.
23 Feb 2013,28 mins
Jeremy Grantham
Peter Day talks with the prominent investor Jeremy Grantham about life in a finite world.
16 Feb 2013,28 mins