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World Service,21 Dec 2010,18 mins

A new single currency

Business Daily

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Why does East Africa wants to create a new single currency, despite the troubles of the euro? Lesley Curwen talks to Ezra Suruma, who is a former Ugandan finance minister and currently a senior adviser to the Ugandan president. Plus, Indian business leader Vineet Nayar argues that employees should come first, and customers second. And the BBC's Guy De Launey reports from Laos, on the wider impact of the creation of a new dam and power station, called Nam Theun 2.

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