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World Service,12 Mar 2014,28 mins

Italy PM Proposes Jobs Boost Programme

World Business Report

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Italy's prime minister proposes a new package to boost jobs. We analyse Matteo Renzi's reforms and their impact on the economy. Also, as the US looks to tighten sanctions on Russia to discourage its involvement in Ukraine, Irwin Stelzer at the Hudson Institute tells us why some big US corporations are advising their government to tread carefully. It has been 30 years since the bitter, year-long miners' strike in the UK - which changed the industrial landscape of Britain. The BBC's Len Tingle tells us about the lives of those affected, and how the mining regions look now. Finally do we all need to teach mathematics like the Chinese? (Photo: Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Credit: Getty Images)

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