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Global Business: Who Sets Our Standards?

13/04/2010

Who Sets Our Standards?

BBC World Service - Global Business, Who Sets Our Standards?

Peter Day asks: who's setting the standards

Peter Day has been asking the standards-setters what they do, and why it matters.

World trade in goods and services - from the butter on your bread to the existence of the mobile phone - is held together by an invisible web of standards set by all kinds of official and semi official organisations. Peter Day has been asking the standards-setters what they do, and why it matters.

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