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Bonuses, bolt-holes and Babylonians

Why pay transparency can have untoward, unintended effects.

Business Weekly looks at pay transparency. It now seems to have become the conventional wisdom that the more transparent everything is, the better it is. But is it true? Research has shown that more knowledge about what other companies pay can have untoward, unintended effects. It can, in fact, ratchet up everybody's earnings. Plus the programme looks at what has become of tax havens and at the world of Babylonian finance.

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28 minutes

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Sun 27 Sep 200917:32GMT

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  • Fri 25 Sep 200922:32GMT
  • Sat 26 Sep 200909:32GMT
  • Sun 27 Sep 200904:32GMT
  • Sun 27 Sep 200917:32GMT