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Update: Brazil Merges Ministries

What will a merger of the environment and agriculture ministries mean for the Amazon?

President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has announced he's merging the ministries of agriculture and the environment and critics are worried the move could endanger the Amazon rainforest and Brazil's other sensitive areas such as the Cerrado savannah. We hear from South American Business Correspondent Daniel Gallas in Sao Paulo. China's billoinaires club is growing and entrepreneurs are leading the way - with two new billionaires created each week. Swiss bank UBS has been looking at the data and we hear from their head of Ultra High Net Worth, Josef Stadler.

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