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World Service,24 Jul 2012,18 mins

Regulating the regulators

Business Daily

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Why do the regulators only flex their muscles when it's far too late - letting the party go with a swing during a boom, only to turn the music off only when the bust comes? And can anything be done about it? Avinash Persaud of Intelligence Capital thinks there is something deeply flawed about the way we swing between cracking down and loosening up on regulation. Business Daily also looks at why the Philippines is sending thousands of domestic workers to maids school to help them cope with the stress of working abroad. Plus Guy Delauney tells us that life insurance is coming to Cambodia - if you can afford it.

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