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From Our Own Correspondent: Going Up in the World

Going Up in the World

18/07/2015

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Going Up in the World

Stories of economic risks and rewards from Ethiopia, the USA, Algeria and Qatar

Stories of risk and reward: how Ethiopia's prospects are brightening; why some US drug offenders are being released; Algeria's lasting anxieties and a hospital for birds in Qatar

Owen Bennett Jones introduces stories of economic risk and reward from around the world. Andrew Harding in Addis Ababa sees how much Ethiopia's prospects are brightening, although the outlook for human rights isn't so sunny; Rachel Wright hears the stories of some of the thousands of imprisoned drug offenders who might soon be released as the USA reconsiders its policy in the war on drugs; Lucy Ash learns that an apparently booming Algiers is still plagued by systemic unemployment and dependence on oil; and Justin Marozzi visits a hospital in Doha which shares out Qatar's largesse to its bird population - or to its elite hunting falcons, at least.

Photo: A lion statue near the Central Train Station in Addis Ababa, February 18, 2015. (ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER/AFP/Getty Images)

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