Latest International finance Podcast Episodes
29. Understanding Barriers to Women’s Economic Advancement
Trade Matters - May 16, 2022 20:44 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTrade policymakers at the World Trade Organization and elsewhere have begun to think about trade as an instrument that can improve gender equality across the world. What do they need to know to design trade agreements and rules that can help women? Kate Francis, an independent consultant curre...
28. Is Economic Statecraft the New Language of Great Power Politics?
Trade Matters - March 17, 2022 19:20 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhat happens when trade rules can’t keep up with the consequences of global economic integration? Jonathan Hackenbroich of the European Council on Foreign Relations explains how countries leverage economic interdependence to apply political pressure in pursuit of a range of policy goals and wh...
Trade Deals Under the Radar
Trade Matters - August 19, 2021 15:21 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThis episode is dedicated to the trade deals you haven’t heard about. Sometimes called mini or skinny deals, over the last few decades the U.S. has made over 1,200 of these agreements. These deals cover a range of issues, vary in scope, are often not made public, and rarely go out of force. Th...
27. Trade Deals Under the Radar
Trade Matters - August 19, 2021 15:21 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThis episode is dedicated to the trade deals you haven’t heard about. Sometimes called mini or skinny deals, over the last few decades the U.S. has made over 1,200 of these agreements. These deals cover a range of issues, vary in scope, are often not made public, and rarely go out of force. Th...
26. Adjustment, Part 2: Rethinking Adjustment Assistance
Trade Matters - June 15, 2021 13:59 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTrade Adjustment Assistance is set to expire July 1, with no signs to date that Congress will soon act to renew it. Grant Aldonas is back on Trade Matters with part two on “adjustment.” Aldonas discusses Trade Adjustment Assistance and the components necessary for what he would call a true adj...
Adjustment, Part 2: Rethinking Adjustment Assistance
Trade Matters - June 15, 2021 13:59 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTrade Adjustment Assistance is set to expire July 1, with no signs to date that Congress will soon act to renew it. Grant Aldonas is back on Trade Matters with part two on “adjustment.” Aldonas discusses Trade Adjustment Assistance and the components necessary for what he would call a true adj...
25. Adjustment, Part 1: Misdiagnosing the Problem of Economic Mobility
Trade Matters - June 10, 2021 18:17 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHow do we adjust to a competitive global economy and define the challenges facing workers? Grant Aldonas, former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, discusses what he calls a misdiagnosis of the problem, political constraints on changing the conversation, and the need to revie...
Adjustment, Part 1: Misdiagnosing the Problem of Economic Mobility
Trade Matters - June 10, 2021 18:17 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHow do we adjust to a competitive global economy and define the challenges facing workers? Grant Aldonas, former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, discusses what he calls a misdiagnosis of the problem, political constraints on changing the conversation, and the need to revie...
How We Talk About Trade
Trade Matters - March 08, 2021 18:49 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHas the parlance of trade kept up with changes in the way trade actually happens? Dr. Phil Levy, Chief Economist at Flexport and former White House and State Department economic policy adviser, joins us to discuss this gap, why it exists, and how it relates to public expectations about what tr...
24. How We Talk About Trade
Trade Matters - March 08, 2021 18:49 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHas the parlance of trade kept up with changes in the way trade actually happens? Dr. Phil Levy, Chief Economist at Flexport and former White House and State Department economic policy adviser, joins us to discuss this gap, why it exists, and how it relates to public expectations about what tr...
Listening to Americans on Trade Policy
Trade Matters - December 15, 2020 17:00 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThere is growing momentum around the effort to understand how Americans everywhere perceive the impact of trade policy and their role in international commerce. Catherine Novelli, President of Listening for America, draws on her experience as a trade negotiator and State Department official an...
23. Listening to Americans on Trade Policy
Trade Matters - December 15, 2020 17:00 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThere is growing momentum around the effort to understand how Americans everywhere perceive the impact of trade policy and their role in international commerce. Catherine Novelli, President of Listening for America, draws on her experience as a trade negotiator and State Department official an...
The WTO & Domestic Politics
Trade Matters - November 25, 2020 18:18 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhen the U.S. loses a trade dispute at the World Trade Organization, how does that decision impact U.S. domestic politics and electoral outcomes? Economists and political scientists are teaming up to propose a new research agenda to examine risks facing international economic institutions and ...
22. The WTO & Domestic Politics
Trade Matters - November 25, 2020 18:18 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhen the U.S. loses a trade dispute at the World Trade Organization, how does that decision impact U.S. domestic politics and electoral outcomes? Economists and political scientists are teaming up to propose a new research agenda to examine risks facing international economic institutions and ...
21. Engagement in the Asia-Pacific and What’s Next for U.S. Trade Policy
Trade Matters - November 17, 2020 20:59 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHow the U.S. should engage in the Asia-Pacific region will be high on the trade policy agenda for the incoming Biden administration. Wendy Cutler, Vice President of the Asia Society Policy Institute, draws on her long career as a U.S. trade negotiator to explain what’s at stake in the region, ...
What’s Next for U.S. Trade Policy?
Trade Matters - November 17, 2020 20:59 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHow the U.S. should engage in the Asia-Pacific region will be high on the trade policy agenda for the incoming Biden administration. Wendy Cutler, Vice President of the Asia Society Policy Institute, draws on her long career as a U.S. trade negotiator to explain what’s at stake in the region, ...
20. Revitalizing the WTO
Trade Matters - October 30, 2020 02:19 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe world trading system is at a turning point, and the role of the World Trade Organization is at the center of the discussion. Clete Willems, Washington lawyer and former White House trade advisor, makes the case for reforming the WTO across all three of its pillars: negotiations, implementa...
Revitalizing the WTO
Trade Matters - October 30, 2020 02:19 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe world trading system is at a turning point, and the role of the World Trade Organization is at the center of the discussion. Clete Willems, Washington lawyer and former White House trade advisor, makes the case for reforming the WTO across all three of its pillars: negotiations, implementa...
A Ticking Clock on GSP
Trade Matters - October 14, 2020 20:50 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsU.S. small businesses are major beneficiaries of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), a U.S. program that allows eligible developing countries to export certain products to the U.S. duty-free to spur economic growth in those countries. The program expires on December 31, 2020. Dan Anth...
19. A Ticking Clock on GSP
Trade Matters - October 14, 2020 20:50 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsU.S. small businesses are major beneficiaries of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), a U.S. program that allows eligible developing countries to export certain products to the U.S. duty-free to spur economic growth in those countries. The program expires on December 31, 2020. Dan Anth...
18. Power, Prosperity and the Sea
Trade Matters - September 29, 2020 15:40 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsMost global trade in goods moves by sea—but what makes that possible? U.S. Navy Admiral (Ret.) James Stavridis walks through the global network of naval forces that supports international trade and discusses the linkages between this system and national security, power and prosperity. He also ...
Power, Prosperity and the Sea
Trade Matters - September 29, 2020 15:40 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsE018: Most global trade in goods moves by sea—but what makes that possible? U.S. Navy Admiral (Ret.) James Stavridis walks through the global network of naval forces that supports international trade and discusses the linkages between this system and national security, power and prosperity. He...
17. Is Agriculture a Bright Spot in US-China Relations?
Trade Matters - September 14, 2020 21:26 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn the US-China Phase One Deal, China agreed to make 57 structural changes that improve market access for agricultural goods. The majority of those changes have been implemented. U.S. Chief Agricultural Negotiator Ambassador Gregg Doud discusses the significance of these changes, what it took ...
Is Agriculture a Bright Spot in US-China Relations?
Trade Matters - September 14, 2020 21:26 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsE017: In the US-China Phase One Deal, China agreed to make 57 structural changes that improve market access for agricultural goods. The majority of those changes have been implemented. U.S. Chief Agricultural Negotiator Ambassador Gregg Doud discusses the significance of these changes, what it...
16. A Closer Look: Nebraskans on U.S. Foreign Policy
Trade Matters - June 01, 2020 19:33 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSalman Ahmed, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and project editor of a new report on Nebraskans’ views of foreign policy, discusses the report takeaways—including what surprised him most about Nebraska. The project was designed to test assumptions about how U.S. ...
A Closer Look: Nebraskans on U.S. Foreign Policy
Trade Matters - June 01, 2020 19:33 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsE016: Salman Ahmed, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and project editor of a new report on Nebraskans’ views of foreign policy, discusses the report takeaways—including what surprised him most about Nebraska. The project was designed to test assumptions about how...
Countdown to USMCA
Trade Matters - May 11, 2020 21:15 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsE015: Kellie Meiman Hock, Managing Partner at McLarty Associates, walks through the challenges playing out in the run-up to USMCA’s entry into force on July 1, including the deal’s new rules for the auto industry, labor provisions, and U.S.-Mexico differences over how to define what is an “ess...
15. Countdown to USMCA
Trade Matters - May 11, 2020 21:15 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsKellie Meiman Hock, Managing Partner at McLarty Associates, walks through the challenges playing out in the run-up to USMCA’s entry into force on July 1, including the deal’s new rules for the auto industry, labor provisions, and U.S.-Mexico differences over how to define what is an “essential...
14. Covid-19 and the Food Supply Chain
Trade Matters - April 27, 2020 20:17 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsDarci Vetter, Vice Chair of Agriculture, Food and Trade at Edelman and former U.S. Chief Agricultural Negotiator, explains why food security depends on the free global movement of food, how Covid-19 has impacted food supply chains, and how protectionist actions can backfire. She also discusses...
Covid-19 and the Food Supply Chain
Trade Matters - April 27, 2020 20:17 ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsE014: Darci Vetter, Vice Chair of Agriculture, Food and Trade at Edelman and former U.S. Chief Agricultural Negotiator, explains why food security depends on the free global movement of food, how Covid-19 has impacted food supply chains, and how protectionist actions can backfire. She also dis...
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