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World Business Report: First broadcast 2019/08/30 14:32 GMT: India's roads feel the slowdown

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India's roads feel the slowdown

First broadcast 2019/08/30 14:32 GMT

First broadcast 2019/08/30 14:32 GMT: India's roads feel the slowdown

BBC World Service - World Business Report, India's roads feel the slowdown

A car industry supplier provides a personal perspective on India’s economic slowdown

As India springs the unpleasant surprise that its economy is now slowing down, we discover how the sluggishness has hurt a rural car industry supplier. Alpesh Patel, a trader and market watcher, tells us what investors are thinking about the subcontinent’s stabilisation – and the symptoms on the ground. Plus, an Amsterdam cannabis cafe owner tells us why coffeeshops like his are sticking to illegal drug suppliers - rather than join a trial to outlaw them. Finally, it will be precisely five years since the Chinese government announced limited plans for democracy in Hong Kong. It all set off a run of seismic events, the latest of which is an illegal demonstration planned for Saturday. We look at why democracy-watchers are feeling threatened.

(Image: An Indian woman and child cross a road in heavy rain. Credit: AFP PHOTO / Arindam DEY / Getty Images)

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