Commanding Heights
The New Rules Of The Game
Thu 5 Jun, 11:35 pm-12:35 am
bbc.co.uk
The inside story of our new global economy. Based on the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, the series chronicles the battle for economic power, the struggle between governments and markets around the world, the turmoil and upheavals of economic reform, the emergence of a new era of globalisation, and the far-reaching debates about the shape of the world's economic future. Through remarkable interviews with world leaders and thinkers in twenty countries on five continents, the programme confronts the critical issues that have defined the wealth and fate of nations and will shape our lives in the twenty-first century.
Tonight's edition tracks the explosive growth of the new world economy in the last decade. The programme examines the promise and the perils of the global economy in the 1990s, focusing on the story of US President Bill Clinton's embrace of free trade, the threat of global contagion, and the sometimes violent debate over globalisation that first surfaced in the Seattle protests.
It confronts issues such as the impact of free trade on the developing world, the sometimes perilous effects of globalised economies, and the critical questions for the future, including the challenge of bringing the world's poor into the era of global growth.
Cutting through the rhetoric to portray what globalisation really is and what it will mean in the twenty-first century, there are interviews with former President Bill Clinton, Chancellor Gordon Brown, President of Mexico Vicente Fox, Senior Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, and world renowned economists. |
