Business Weekly
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
It’s estimated that a quarter of a billion people could lose their jobs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. On Business Weekly we ask whether governments need to rethink the way they deal with mass unemployment.
We also head to the salt flats of Bolivia to find out whether the untapped lithium reserves there will be a blessing or a curse for the South American country.
Plus, we’ll discover why you’ll need to bring a coat if you go out for coffee in France and find out why doctors are putting pictures of themselves in bikinis on social media.
Presented by Lucy Burton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, if a week is a long time in politics, a day is a long time in business at the moment, |
| 0:06.1 | and it can be exhausting trying to keep up with all the latest developments. |
| 0:10.1 | That's why we've interrupted your Business Daily pod feed to bring you Business Weekly, |
| 0:14.4 | a new weekend program which brings you an hour of the most interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking stories you might have missed |
| 0:21.7 | from the BBC's business team. |
| 0:28.4 | Hello and welcome to Business Weekly with Lucy Burton. On the show today, we'll be looking |
| 0:33.5 | at the jobs market as warnings of mass unemployment sound around the globe. |
| 0:42.5 | If you work in retail or hospitality, the automobile or airline sectors, |
| 0:48.0 | chances are you've already witnessed job losses due to the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic. |
| 0:50.6 | The numbers are already stark. |
| 0:53.8 | Fifteen million people in the EU are now unemployed. In the US, that figure stands at nearly |
| 0:56.6 | 18 million. Unsurprisingly, people all over the world are really worried about their future. |
| 1:03.1 | Let's hear from some of them in the UK, South Africa and the US. |
| 1:07.3 | I just got an email saying, I'm really sorry, but we've had to let you go. And it just |
| 1:12.3 | plummets, you know, your mood plummets, mental health plummets. And it's just, it's very, |
| 1:18.3 | it's been very difficult living in limbo, essentially. We're helpless. We can't send money home |
| 1:24.4 | by taking our jobs away, they're snatching away food from our mouths. |
| 1:28.3 | We understand we are in a dire situation, but I wish the government would be taking a bit of a more considerable approach. |
| 1:37.3 | I'm afraid to think about future. For now, I'm good. I got paid. I will pay my rent, I will pay my bills. |
| 1:46.2 | What future will bring? This is something that you try not to think of. |
| 1:51.9 | In India, unemployment is falling, but still stands at over 10%. |
| 1:56.8 | One city that's been particularly affected is Bangalore, known as the country's answer to Silicon Valley, |
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