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World Business Report: The economic case for taking in migrants

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The economic case for taking in migrants

03/09/2015 GMT

BBC World Service - World Business Report, The economic case for taking in migrants

As well as the moral case, is there an economic argument for taking in migrants?

Is there an economic - as well as a moral - argument behind Germany's pledge to take in more migrants? And can that argument be extended to other EU countries? We speak to Matthias Mayer, from the German think tank Bertelsmann Stiftung, and Jason Karaian, senior Europe correspondent at Quartz. 

''A desperate measure aimed at suppressing dissent''. That's how Greenpeace has described the decision by the Indian government to cancel a licence which allows the environmental pressure group to receive foreign funds. Narendra Modi's administration accuses the environmental group of violating rules governing overseas funding. Priya Pillai of Greenpeace India sets out the opposite view. 

Also in India, the Modi government had hoped to push through a bill that would make it easier for business to acquire agricultural land in the last session of parliament. But it was unable to do so. So why is the issue of land such a controversial one in India? The BBC's Rahul Tandon investigates. 

In our regular round up of the week's news, John Edwards, deputy business editor at the Wall Street Journal in London, and Gina Chon, of the Financial Times in Washington, discuss: the mounting refugee crisis in Europe; the Chinese journalists being publicly shamed for 'spreading rumours' about the stock market crash; and whether India's "cloud schools" could be the future for education. 

And finally, the phrase "money doesn't grow on trees" is often used heard in English speaking circles - to remind people not to be too extravagant. So a new sculpture at the European Central Bank - the centre of Europe's monetary world - has raised a few eyebrows. It's a 17 metre high tree - with a distinct golden hue - and its one of a trio of artworks that has cost the bank more than a million euros to commission. We speak to the tree's Italian sculptor, Guiseppe Penone.

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