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Business Matters: Lebanon and Jordan Sheltering Millions of Syrians

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08/09/2015 GMT

Lebanon and Jordan Sheltering Millions of Syrians

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Lebanon and Jordan Sheltering Millions of Syrians

An exclusive report from a refugee camp Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

As European governments struggle to formulate a common policy on refugees and migrants, we have an exclusive report from Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

The spotlight on refugees and migrants arriving in Europe in such large numbers has been on the Mediterranean and, more recently, on access routes via eastern Europe. But those numbers - as many as 20-thousand people reaching Germany in one weekend - are still dwarfed by the hundreds of thousands who have been forced to seek shelter in the countries bordering Syria. We hear from refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan and from a charity that provides legal assistance to refugees there. The World Bank's Director for the Middle East explains how he hopes the organisation can aid the region. 

Karishma Vaswani is in Dalian in China, host of this year's regional version of the World Economic Forum. And we hear from Rahul Tandon in Kolkata. 

If you use the social media site LinkedIn you'll  no doubt be familiar with people endorsing you for various skills you might or might not possess. This seems to be the latest manifestation of a trend in the world of recruitment - the compulsion to brag about our skillsets. But what does this even mean? Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times is not impressed.

All this and more discussed with our two guests on opposite sides of the Pacific: Jason Abbruzzese is a Business Reporter at Mashable in New York and Catherine Yeung is Investment Director at Fidelity Worldwide Investment in Hong Kong.

(Picture: Syrian children at a refugee camp in Lebanon. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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