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The issue of immigration has taken centre stage days ahead of the US midterm elections. Our regular US economic commentator Irwin Stelzer of the Hudson Institute considers how the debate is playing out. Also in the programme, the World Bank's latest 'Ease of Doing Business' report has been published, and places New Zealand in the top spot. The World Bank's acting chief economist, Shanta Devarajan, tells us how the rankings are decided. Whilst it is still growing globally, Facebook's latest results show unchanged user growth in the lucrative US and Canada markets, with users down in Europe. Our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones considers the social network's prospects. We have a report from the island of Samoa on the potentially disastrous impact it could face as a result of climate change. Plus on Halloween, Annabelle Timsit of the US website Quartz tells us about the growing global economic impact of the event.