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World Service,20 Aug 2013,17 mins

Emerging Markets' Currency Chaos?

Business Daily

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Jamie Robertson asks if a sharp fall in the Indian, Brazilian and Indonesian currencies could bode ill for emerging markets? Chief business correspondent Linda Yueh explains and tells us how the Vietnamese economy is struggling to transition away from a centrally managed system. Plus, as their politicians consume themselves with sabre rattling, Tokyo correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes discovers that Japanese and Chinese citizens are finding much to admire in one another. And Howard Johnson reports on how the UN is policing licit and illicit business in a Jordanian refugee camp.

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