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The World Bank has warned that growth in emerging market economies could be being hampered by a sharp decline in investment spending.
Revealing their economic forecasts for 2017, the bank said whilst growth looked set to return to many countries which had been in recession or who's economies had stagnated, the pace of that growth would be extremely slow.The report's lead author, Franzika Ohnsorge, joins us.
From 2026 the World Cup will expand from 32 to 48 teams. With more opportunity for clubs in under-represented regions like Africa, Ghanaian sports reporter Fiifi Anaman tells us how that is likely to go down in his country. Meanwhile Professor Simon Chadwick of Salford Business School tells us money may be the key driver behind the move. Also in the programme, with general elections coming up in several big European countries this year, we consider the implications for the Euro currency, with our regular economic commentator Roger Bootle of Capital Economics. A Dutch entrepreneur is hoping to make the process of divorce easier by establishing special divorce hotels, as the 大象传媒's Anna Holligan reports from the Netherlands. Plus more than a decade after the demise of Concorde, the 大象传媒's Theo Leggett reports on the prospects for a new wave of supersonic passenger jets.

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