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Six Routes To A Richer World

Factual: Money

How can you make it in the global economy? Meet those who have made it & those trying.

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21/03/2015

BBC World Service - Six Routes To A Richer World, USA

Is the famous land of opportunity still living up to its promise?

We  ask whether the famous land of opportunity still lives up to its promise. As the American dream has been exported throughout the world, does it still apply to people here?

The final stop on our six country tour is America, where we  ask whether the famous land of opportunity still lives up to its promise. As the American dream has been exported throughout the world, does it still apply to people building their businesses here? 

Marketplace's Lizzie O'Leary heads  to Silicon Valley  to find out if the boom can lift local aspirations when the new gilded age is so globalised. Krissy Clark then visits Ohio, where the promise of a previous century has evaporated. And in New York we look at how America  stacks up against  the world's emerging economies and ask how long it can continue to be number one. 

Will the country remain the focus for the aspirations of the new global middle class? We hear from entreprenuers who have come to New York  from around the world, hoping that that America is still the best place to make a modern fortune.

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