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World Service,25 May 2023,26 mins

Why has Germany gone into recession?

World Business Report

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As Germany enters recession, Rob Young looks at the key factors behind it and speaks to a manufacturer weathering the storm. With a tense political future and struggling economy, how likely is Pakistan to get the IMF funding it so desperately needs? And as Turkey holds a crucial election runoff we find out why voters are giving the incumbent President Erdoğan another chance. (Picture: Electric automobile production at Volkswagen (VW) vehicle plant in Zwickau, Germany - 24 May 2023 Credit: Photo by MARTIN DIVISEK/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

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