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Business Matters: Japan hikes sales tax 1 April 14

Tue, 1 Apr 14

Mark Whittaker is joined from New Delhi by journalist Jyoti Malhotra and from New York by Daniel Strachmann, founder¹ of Hedgeanswers.com. The Japanese government is increasing sales tax by three per cent as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tries to kick-start the country's economy. Meanwhile in France, President Francois Hollande has replaced his prime minister with Spanish-born interior minister Manuel Valls but how much difference will it make to the nation's struggling economy? The UN's warned of the "severe, pervasive² and irreversible" effects of climate change. We meet those being affected³ by it already.