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World Business Report: First broadcast 25/12/2020 22:32 GMT: Review of the year - 2020

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First broadcast 25/12/2020 22:32 GMT

First broadcast 25/12/2020 22:32 GMT: Review of the year - 2020

Review of the year - 2020

BBC World Service - World Business Report, Review of the year - 2020

Can we build a more efficient world economy for the post Covid-19 era?

Covid-19 is set to prompt radical long term changes to how we live and work, so what lessons can be learnt when we eventually emerge from the pandemic? Could the changes in the way we work herald higher productivity and happier people in the future?

We hear the stories of the people who managed to thrive during a very difficult year, including the milkman who saw a boom in deliveries and the dancer who found work in South Korea when the London stage went dark.

Martin Webber is joined by Professor Devi Sridhar who holds the Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh; economist Roger Bootle, of Capital Economics; Robert Reich, former Labour Secretary under President Clinton; Tomas Philipson, who was Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under Mr Trump; and actor Thomas Inge who is currently starring in the musical Cats in South Korea.

(Image: courier delivers a package of Amazon in Rome. Credit: Getty Images).

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