App Store

Google Play

DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst 

BBC World Service


The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.


Business Daily

Turkey is facing a growing global problem: a declining birth rate. The number of babies being born reached an all-time low in 2024, of 1.48 children born per woman - that’s well below the replacement level of 2.10. 

The country's President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is calling the drop in fertility rate "a disaster" and has declared 2025 the "Year of the Family", promising incentives for parents. 

President Erdoğan is focusing on saving traditional family values, which he says are under threat, and is encouraging women to have at least three children. However, many in Turkey say it is the faltering economy - with inflation at around 35% - that is making it impossible to grow their families.

If you'd like to get in touch with the programme, you can email us: businessdaily@bbc.co.uk
 
Presented and produced by Emily Wither with Zeynep Bilginsoy

(Picture: A mother holds her baby during a visit to Anitkabir, the mausoleum of Turkish Republic's Founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on National Sovereignty and Children's Day, a national holiday dedicated to children, in Ankara. Credit: Getty Images)

Turkey's 'Year of the Family'

From taking on the role of Kenya Airways' CEO in the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, to leading the company to profitability after years of financial turbulence, we hear the difficult decisions Allan Kilavuka has made during his time at the helm of one of Africa’s largest airlines - and the challenges that lie ahead for African aviation.

Allan Kilavuka also tells us about his time growing up in Western Kenya, and his unusual career path, including a stint as a marriage guidance counsellor. 

If you'd like to get in touch with the programme, our email address is businessdaily@bbc.co.uk
 
Presenter: Ed Butler 
Producer: Amber Mehmood

(Picture: CEO of Kenya Airways, Allan Kilavuka. Credit: Getty Images)

Business Daily meets: Allan Kilavuka

We investigate smartphone thefts - which are rising in number in some major cities. What's the impact, and where are the phones going? And how can people protect themselves?

If you'd like to get in touch with the programme, email us at businessdaily@bbc.co.uk

Presented and produced by Deborah Weitzmann

(Image: A phone is taken from a rucksack. Credit: Getty Images)

The global trade in stolen phones

As the continent aims to grow the sport, we hear from professional golfers who say they’re having to take on other jobs because there’s not enough money in the sport yet. 

Would a more organised competition structure, with more regular competitions, offer more opportunities to win prize money?

If you'd like to get in touch with the programme, email us at businessdaily@bbc.co.uk

Presented and produced by Zawadi Mudibo

(Image: Zambian professional golfer Dayne Moore. Credit: Getty Images)

Making a career from golf in Africa

Generation Z - people born in the mid-to-late 1990s up to the early 2010s - is reportedly the new driving force behind retail investing. We look at the areas they are investing in, and why financial influencers are not always what they seem. 

To get in touch with the programme, send us an email to businessdaily@bbc.co.uk

Presented and produced by Rick Kelsey

(Picture: Young male investor showing smart phone screen with stock market investment app. Credit: Getty Images)

Is Gen Z the most investment-savvy generation?

On the morning of the 28th of April, Spain lost electric power equivalent to that generated by ten nuclear plants, leaving the whole of the Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal and parts of France, without electricity for up to 12 hours. We examine the cause of the blackout that affected millions of people, and the role of renewable energy.

If you'd like to email us, our address is businessdaily@bbc.co.uk

Presented and produced by Ashish Sharma

(Picture: People shop for groceries using their phone as a flashlight during the widespread power outage that struck Spain and Portugal in April 2025. Credit: Getty Images)

Spain's power blackout: what went wrong?

The South African entrepreneur tells us about his experience growing up under the apartheid regime, before securing a scholarship that would take him to Harvard University in the US.

He's now returned home to set up Cloudline, an airship company which aims to deliver goods and carry out surveys in remote parts of Africa.

Airships are seeing something of a comeback, with investors seeing an opportunity for quick, green transportation without the need for complex infrastructure.

The sector is still in its early stages, but Spencer Horne explains why he's so passionate - and why he believes the technology is the answer to African growth. 

If you'd like to get in touch with our programme, you can email us at businessdaily@bbc.co.uk

Presented and produced by Russell Padmore

(Image: Spencer Horne. Credit: Cloudline)

Business Daily meets: Spencer Horne

The trend has taken off on social media as it's resonated with office workers around the world. 

So what value does an extroverted colleague bring to a company? 

And is it fair, or even legal, for businesses to recruit for specific personality types?

Produced and presented by Imran Rahman-Jones

(Image: Two colleagues laughing together. Credit: Getty Images)

Are you a personality hire?

Farmers in Denmark are getting ready for an ambitious new scheme that will transform the country's landscape from 2030.

As well as giving land back to nature, the Green Tripartite Agreement will see farmers taxed on the greenhouse gas emissions coming from livestock - the first country in the world to do so.

Animals like cattle, sheep and pigs release the greenhouse gas methane as part of their digestive processes. Will the tax push up the price of food as some fear, and put farmers out of business? Or is it a model that other countries can and should follow?

Plus - we meet Hilda, the Scottish calf bred to emit lower levels of methane.

if you'd like to get in touch with the programme, you can email us at businessdaily@bbc.co.uk

Presented and produced by Lexy O'Connor

(Picture: Calves - including Hilda - in a shed.)

Denmark's "burp tax"

Cyberattacks are on the rise, with retail, banking, and airline industries all targeted in recent months. The cost to the economy is huge and thought to be worth billions of dollars.
 
As businesses scramble to stay secure, we investigate the ransomware gangs behind the breaches and the experts working to stop them. 

If you'd like to get in touch with the programme, please email us at businessdaily@bbc.co.uk

Presenter: Sam Gruet
Producer: Megan Lawton

(Photo: A computer popup box screen warning of a system hack. 3D illustration. Credit: Getty Images)

Is cybercrime the biggest threat to business?

The world's major consulting firms make an estimated trillion dollars a year, directing governments and businesses on how best to govern.

But the economist Mariana Mazzucato argues that outsourcing the brain power of governments to private firms is a dangerous trend. 

Ed Butler asks her why she thinks it isn't money well spent.

(Picture: Mariana Mazzucato. Credit: Getty Images)

Presented and produced by Ed Butler

Business Daily meets: Mariana Mazzucato

Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Other podcasts you might like ...