HARDtalk - Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian Finance Minister 2006-2008

Stephen Sackur talks to newsmakers and personalities from across the globe. In a special business series, HARDtalk takes a closer look at the state of the global economy. The IMF says there is a one-in-four chance of a global recession; the credit crunch has spooked money markets; soaring commodity prices threaten to stoke inflation and inflict misery on the poor. Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa was, until last month, Italy's finance minister. Stephen Sackur asks him just how sick the world economy is.