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Hello and welcome to Business Matters here on the BBC World Service.
I'm Rahul Tandon.
That's the last time you're going to hear an introduction like that
because this is our final ever program.
From next week, you'll be able to hear our colleagues at the newsroom.
He'll be bringing you all the latest on those global news stories.
And let's be honest, there's quite a lot of them around.
So we thought, what would we do on our last program?
It clearly is the emotional moment for many of the presenters,
many of the producers who have worked on this program.
And you know, we thought, what should we do?
Well, we thought, why not look back on the last 12 years,
12 and a bit years that business matters has been going and look at some of the big economic stories that we have covered during that time,
because many of them are still having a huge impact on life today.
If we talk about COVID-19, Donald Trump becoming the president,
the emergence of China and India as global economies.
And we thought we're going to have a range of guests.
We're going to try something different on Halas program,
because that's what we've tried to do all the way through as we've been looking to connect.