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radio four here's Kate Aide. Today India is it really one of the worst places in the world to do business?

Why the French authorities are paying the hotel bills of people who plotted to blow up the

Eiffel Tower. We're in Dublin two weeks before polling day

where all the talks about the one-time IRA man who wants to be president of

Ireland. And there's a question in a small town in Sierra Leone.

Are those two muddy looking rocks really uncut diamonds?

These may be troubled times for Western economies with grim news on unemployment, stagnant production and

gittery stock markets, but India continues to power ahead. It has a growth rate of

more than 8% and a massive middle class which has more money to spend than ever before.

Many foreign companies therefore see entry into the Indian market as one way of riding out the global

financial storm, but Mark Dummet in Delhi says that doing business in India

is not for the faint-hearted. Rick Birch has worked all over the world. He's an impresario

who organises the opening ceremonies of major international

sporting events. He's done six Olympics, including Beijing, Sydney and Barcelona. He's helped design

extravagances in Mexico, Singapore and his native Australia.

He's also worked in India where he produced the curtain raiser for Delhi's Commonwealth Games one year ago.

It wasn't easy.

The biggest sporting event in India's history was supposed to be its chance to show off, much

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