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In the Balance: Diamond years for business?

Diamond years for business?

09/06/2012

BBC World Service - In the Balance, Diamond years for business?

At the end of Diamond Jubilee week, we ask how business has changed in the last 60 years.

We pick up the Diamond Jubilee theme to look at how the world of business has changed in the last sixty years. Two big themes: globalisation and the shift in economic power from West to East.

At the end of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee week, we take the British festivities as an excuse to reflect on six decades of change in the world of business. 

There are two big themes: globalisation - the opportunities and the dangers - and the shift of the centre of economic gravity in the world from West to East, the rise of China. 

Andrew Walker hears the views and experiences of Lord Karan Bilimoria the founder of the Indian company Cobra beer, Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba Deputy Secretary General of the Commonwealth, who is a national of Botswana, and Rupert Soames, Chief Executive of Aggreko, a company which supplies temporary power generation equipment. 

The historical context is set out by Professor Nicholas Crafts of Warwick University.

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