Published on 21 May 2016
Eight
years on from the economic crash, the world economy is still
stagnating. This is not how it was meant to be. Politicians around the
world have been promising an era of prosperity for all would return.
Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers tells us how he believes
things may never improve – and we ask why growth has disappeared. One
theory: we’re not having as many babies as we need to. We also feature
former ECB chief Jean-Claude Trichet and former South African Reserve
Bank governor Tito Mbweni.