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World Business Report: First broadcast 14/04/2023 14:32 GMT : Brazil’s President wants countries to move away from the dollar

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Brazil’s President wants countries to move away from the dollar

First broadcast 14/04/2023 14:32 GMT 

First broadcast 14/04/2023 14:32 GMT : Brazil’s President wants countries to move away from the dollar

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Brazil’s President Lula da Silva wants countries to move away from the dollar

The leaders of China and Brazil are meeting in Beijing - what does that mean for the global economy. Brazil’s President Lula wants countries to move away from the dollar?

Rahul Tandon hears about Brazil’s president Lula da Silva’s remarks on countries moving away from the dollar as he meets with the Chinese president Xi Jinping. The two leaders are expected to sign twenty trade agreements.

The International Monetary Fund has projected that the economy of Sub-Saharan Africa will grow by 3.6 per cent in 2023 and accelerate to 4.2 per cent in 2024. Abebe Selassie, Director of the African Department at the IMF tells us more.

To France, where the Constitutional Court is due to make a key decision any minute now on President Macron's controversial pension reforms. Macron wants to raise the age of retirement from 62 to 64 but his plan has faced massive opposition from unions and ordinary people.

US firms are waiting to pump 'billions of dollars' of cash into the Northern Ireland economy if there’s more political stability there. That’s according to President Biden who is visiting the island of Ireland to mark 25-years since the Good Friday Agreement. 

(Picture: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping after a signing ceremony held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Source: BBC Images/Shutterstock)

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