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From Our Own Correspondent: The State of Things

The State of Things

15/03/2015

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, The State of Things

US immigration, China's NPC plenary, the Indian budget, tax in Mali and Chile's gauchos

Correspondents meet State employees and debate the state of various nations: with stories on US immigration, China's NPC plenary, India's budget, tax in Mali and Chilean gauchos

Dealing with the State, around the world: correspondents meet public employees and debate the state of various nations in this edition, presented by Owen Bennett Jones. 

Rajini Vaidyanathan visits a US immigration court in Virginia and hears the stories of those hoping to leave red-tape limbo, and some alarming figures about waiting times; 
Carrie Gracie reflects on the politically powerful and the powerless in China, from the annual plenary meeting of the National People's Congress in Beijing this week;
Mark Tully asks whether Narendra Modi's first Budget for India will be able to shake off inertia, corruption and complacency - or exorcise the ghostly, dead hand of the long-gone Raj ;
Alex Duval Smith volunteers to pay her income tax in Bamako, and finds Malian officials ready to reward an honest declaration of earnings;
and Tom Fort leaves Chile's capital - and its government - far, far behind as he goes fly-fishing in the remote Cisnes valley in Patagonia, near the border with Argentina.

Photo: An attendant prepares tea at the Great Hall of the People on March 12, 2015 in Beijing, China. (ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)

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