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Radio Scotland,10 Feb 2019,54 mins

Good Morning Scotland: The Weekend Edition 09/10 February, 2019

Good Morning Scotland: The Weekend Edition

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This edition contains: how can the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis be ended? Tom Long, Assistant Professor in New Rising World Powers at Warwick University, and Asa Cusack, Managing Editor of the Latin America and Caribbean Centre at London School of Economics, discuss the options. BBC South America correspondent Katy Watson on the fall-out from the collapse of the Brazilian dam, and as a government group is reportedly planning an economic strategy in the event of no deal with options ranging from cutting taxes to deregulation and slashing tariffs, Matthew Kilcoyne of the Adam Smith Institute and Jonathan Portes, Professor of Economics at Kings College, London discuss where the plans leave Britain's economic prospects and whether the country could be heading for a low tax, deregulated economy. And In our Long Interview, Bill Whiteford speaks to the architectural historian, writer and broadcaster, Anna Keay.

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