Please note a schedule change for Monday, March 16 –  the first five episodes of Six Routes to a Richer World (originally 26 mins 30 secs) will be repeated Monday to Friday at 10:00ET with a shorter duration of 23 minutes.

Six Routes to a Richer World
http://www.bbc.co.uk/partners/english/programmes/six-routes-to-a-richer-world

• First aired: Monday 16 March – Friday 20 March
• Broadcast window: Live only
• Number of episodes: 5
• Program duration: 23 minutes (or 30 mins including the News Update, billboard & promo)

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As part of the A Richer World season we go around the world in 40 days, visiting six key countries and meeting the people who’ve made it, and those aspiring to make it, to find out how to get ahead – and stay ahead – in the new global economy.

A generation ago the way ahead seemed clear. Communism and the command economy lay defeated and a simple prescription, written in Wall St and Washington, would bring the world new wealth. It hasn’t been so simple. The Great Recession has left the rich world less confident that it has the right recipe to sustain a rising middle class. Meanwhile a huge global middle class has emerged as people in what was once the developing world have adapted that recipe.

What is clearer than ever is that we all seem to aspire to the same thing the world over – a place of our own, the latest phone, the best education for our children. The heroes of the age are the billionaire business buccaneers, who have all those things and so much more. But it’s less clear that the formula for finding the greatest happiness for the greatest number still lies in Wall St, Washington, or even Silicon Valley. New technology, new sources of energy, old debts, changing needs in education, and growing inequality – all pose huge challenges as well as opportunities for those plotting routes to a better life in a richer world.

From Monday 16 March – Episode One: Germany
Simon Jack looks at how the euro crisis has exposed Germany’s unusual relationship with debt. And Marketplace’s Krissy Clark meets entrepreneurs Jan and Feride of Uslu airlines – a company that has taken inspiration from Germany’s world-renowned car industry and used it to make a mark in the make-up industry.

Presented by Simon Jack

From Tuesday 17 March – Episode Two: Nigeria
Nkem Ifejika heads to Nigeria to meet the business leaders who are building Nigeria’s newest industries from the ground up; from creating Africa’s first global TV network to getting Nigerian made cars onto the nation’s roads.

Presented by Nkem Ifejika

From Wednesday 18 March – Episode Three: Brazil
Lizzie O’Leary travels to Brazil to look at the pressures facing the economy’s growing middle class. Brazil, heralded as the poster child of the BRIC nations, is seeing a widening gap between the rich and the poor.

Lizzie takes a tour of a billionaire’s home in a bullet-proof car and meets a company that divested their business from a time-honoured Brazilian business in commodities, into the new Brazilian consumer class through hair care products. We hear from a family that has seen their lives transformed in three generations – from a grandmother who worked as a maid, to a grandson who now attends private school, and we look at how the current scandals – like Petrobras and the San Paulo water drought – are signs that the economy’s slowing economic growth may be just the tip of the ice-berg.

Presented by Lizzie O’Leary

From Thursday 19 March – Episode Four: India
Justin Rowlatt travels to India to find out whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make In India’ campaign can transform Indian industry. With predictions that Indian growth rates could outstrip China for the first time, he meets the new generation of tech entrepreneurs building businesses that cater for the vast new domestic consumer class.

Presented by Justin Rowlatt

From Friday 20 March – Episode Five: China
In the fifth programme, Linda Yueh travels to Shanghai to find out how the economic slowdown and the government’s anti-corruption drive is changing how people do business in China.

Presented by Linda Yueh

Produced by the BBC and Marketplace

This program is part of A Richer World season

 

BBC broadcast times:

APM | Monday – Friday 1000ET