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Amid damage and loss of life, Tuesday's explosion puts Lebanon's economy under more pressure. Nadine Majzoub of the Honest Truth Media Hub in Beirut tells us about the likely implications. Also in the programme, Sweden was conspicuous in the pandemic by not imposing a lockdown, and its economic growth figures for the second quarter of the year have now been published. Gabriel Mellqvist of the financial daily Dagens Industri tells us how the country performed compared to its southern European neighbours. And we consider Sweden's economic outlook, with Anna Stellinger, deputy director general of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. Plus, the recent Black Lives Matter protests, sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May, have reinvigorated efforts to attract disillusioned African Americans to visit and build a new life in Ghana. Ghanaian filmmaker Kuukua Eshun moved to the United States as a teenager, but returned a couple of years ago, and says that after experiencing racism for the first time in the US, she has no regrets. And Professor Joseph Teye, director of the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of Accra considers whether Ghana's economy is likely to attract more people to do the same.

(Picture: Beirut's destroyed port. Picture credit: EPA.)