Global corporate tax deal draws closer - a podcast by BBC World Service

An agreed global minimum 15% corporate tax rate draws closer as Ireland signs up. Dr Brian Keenan is director of public policy at Chartered Accountants Ireland and discusses the background to the latest developments. Also in the programme, Chris Low of FHN Financial in New York wraps up the week on Wall Street, and reflects on some lower than expected US jobs figures. The BBC's Thomas Naadi reports on the problem of discarded 'fast fashion' clothing items from western countries ending up in landfill in Africa. San Francisco Fed Chief Mary Daly speaks to Kai Ryssdal on inflation, the debt ceiling impasse and why public trust is essential for monetary policymakers at the central bank.Electric car maker Tesla's boss Elon Musk has announced that the firm will move its headquarters from California to Texas. And the BBC's Ed Butler takes a trip into the Metaverse.

All through the show we'll be joined by Peter Ryan of ABC in Sydney.

(Picture: Ireland's finance minister Paschal Donohoe. Picture credit: Press Association.)

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