Business Weekly
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4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this edition of Business Weekly, we look at an alternative view of the economic future, a year on from the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. We hear from musicians on different continents who have found different ways to pay the bills when the live venues closed. And we head to Nairobi to meet Josephine, a woman living in an informal settlement, who has recorded a pandemic diary for us. We will also hear from the fishing villages around the Indian Ocean where people in the Seychelles and Maldives are worried the yellow fin tuna stocks are fast depleting. It’s being blamed on a love of sushi in the west. And to finish off, we’ve an insight into a very unusual career that has brought someone a great deal of happiness. Business Weekly is presented by Sasha Twining and produced by Matthew Davies.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this edition of Business Weekly with me, Sasha Twining. |
| 0:09.2 | On this week's programme, I'll take you from the seas of the Indian Ocean to the slums of Nairobi. |
| 0:15.0 | We'll hear how International Women's Day protests turned ugly, |
| 0:19.0 | and also from musicians who, deprived of their livelihoods, |
| 0:22.6 | have been trying different things to make ends meet. Oh, and we'll also end with a story of a very |
| 0:27.5 | unusual job that I promise you'll be thinking about a long time from now. But we're going to |
| 0:32.3 | start with the 11th of March 2020. |
| 0:36.0 | WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock |
| 0:40.9 | and we're deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity |
| 0:48.2 | and by the alarming levels of inaction. |
| 0:53.0 | We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be |
| 0:58.1 | characterised as a pandemic. That was the Director-General of the World Health |
| 1:03.1 | Organisation, Dr Tedros at Hanam Gabriyasos, making the spreading infection officially a pandemic. |
| 1:10.3 | Now, a lot has happened in the last 12 months, |
| 1:12.3 | and the experience you will have had will be entirely different to your neighbours, your friends, |
| 1:17.4 | or indeed to mine. But we will all have areas in common that will have changed our lives, |
| 1:23.2 | work, relationships, family, travel, finances, social lives. And much like the difference in the way we've all lived through the last 12 months, |
| 1:31.3 | there'll be vast differences in the way the next 12 months will pan out for all of us. |
| 1:35.5 | And it's likely to be shaped by our age, our country, our employment sector. |
| 1:41.0 | And it would seem most importantly, according to the OECD, how different governments have |
| 1:46.3 | mustered their vaccination programmes. Now, I mentioned the OECD, the intergovernmental economic group, |
| 1:52.1 | because this week it released its interim report on the speed of recovery. Here's its chief |
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