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Upbeat news for the US jobs market

On WBR we decode the US jobs figures out today - they were much better than expected.

On World Business Report today we decode the latest US jobs figures. The US economy created 236,000 jobs in February - much more than expected. We have a special report from New York.

And as part of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s "What If" season and to coincide with International Womens Day we ask "what if there were more women in work?"

Plus - as China's new football season kicks off we talk to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s John Sudworth outside a soccer stadium in Guangzhou about how Chinese football is tackling match-fixing and corruption.

And in a week dominated China's change of rulers, the death of Hugo Chavez, and America's apparent upturn in fortunes...we review a dramatic week in business with Matthew Bishop from the Economist and Diane Brady from Bloomberg.

(Image: US flags flutter in the wind in New York, September 18, 2012. Credit: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/GettyImages)

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Fri 8 Mar 2013 17:32GMT

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