The World of Business

Insights into the business world - featuring content from BBC Radio 4's In Business programme, and a

Episodes

Total: 471

With food waste a huge global problem, can business find new, profitable solutions? Tanya Beckett de

Playing the Market

2017/9/21

From the film Wall Street, to the play Enron, finance workers and bankers tend to be portrayed negat

Crossing the Line

2017/9/14

What red lines need to be crossed before companies retreat from foreign markets? As political turmoi

Twenty five years after Britain opened its first privately run prison, Matthew Gwyther explores whet

From sick man of Europe to world's richest exporter - how did Germany do it? At the turn of the cent

Community Enterprise

2017/8/11

What role can the community play in rejuvenating their local economy? Globalisation often results in

Fish to Share

2017/8/5

Many British fishermen rejoiced after the UK vote to leave the European Union. They hoped it would m

Managing a Tower Block

2017/8/3

Tower blocks are under intense scrutiny. So what's the best way to run them? Matthew Gwyther visits

Why do so many economic and business forecasts fail to correctly map the future? Adam Shaw asks why

India's Cashless Economy

2017/5/30

Nina Robinson looks at how India’s digital payments industry is mushrooming after Prime Minister Nar

Engineering the Future

2017/5/28

For decades the UK has not produced enough engineers. What's been going wrong? Is education at fault

McDonalds has long dominated the burger market and continues to do so in the UK. But the US owned, g

The Art of the Meeting

2017/5/12

We spend hours in meetings at work so what can we do to love them more? Tanya Beckett looks at the a

Rebooting Rural Russia

2017/5/6

The Kremlin has been flexing economic and political muscles on the world stage but the Russian econo

How have private businesses fared in Greece since the crisis began? The economy has shrunk by nearly

The number of women in prison globally is rapidly increasing. The Institute for Criminal Policy Rese

Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with the European Union. It vo

Productivity, or the lack of it, is one of the great puzzles of the British economy at the moment.Pr

Why are Mexicans working abroad sending more money back home? Last year total remittance payments fo

Denmark is on course to generate 50% of its electricity from wind power in the next three years. The