Latest World trade Podcast Episodes
Introducing: We Can Do Hard Things
9/12 - March 14, 2024 08:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsLife is freaking hard. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing; caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries...
Christine Lagarde and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on women empowerment
Let's talk trade by WTO - March 08, 2024 10:43 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsLast year, on International Women's Day, the WTO community was treated to a special event. Two prominent women in the global economy came together for a candid conversation about women's economic empowerment, gender balance in the workplace, and more. The discussion with Christine Lagarde, who s...
Where to find Episodes 2-7 of 9/12
9/12 - February 01, 2024 08:00 - 57 seconds ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsIn the first episode of 9/12, a TV crew was stranded on a boat in the middle of the ocean with no access to TV, radio, or internet. This took place during one of the most catastrophic events in American history. One day later, on September 12, 2001, they learned the horrible truth of wh...
Feeding the world. Food Safety as a key to access export markets. (S7 - Ep 5)
Let's talk trade by WTO - December 14, 2023 13:40 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsFood safety is a collective responsibility. Producers, businesses, , governments, and international agencies all contribute to ensuring that the food consumers receive is safe to eat. In this podcast episode, our guest, Francis Chama of York Farms, a Zambian agricultural producer, sheds light o...
Never give up. Export ambitions in the face of natural disasters (S7 - Ep4)
Let's talk trade by WTO - December 05, 2023 16:13 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe people of Tonga, a Small Island Developing State in the Pacific, know a thing or two about living with natural disasters. In 2022, their archipelago was first hit by a giant volcanic eruption and then went through a prolonged period of drought. Farmer and entrepreneur Minoru Nishi Jr is not ...
Go local. Gaining a foothold in the global IT services market (S7 - Ep3)
Let's talk trade by WTO - October 31, 2023 08:39 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsDigitally transmitted services are the fastest-growing segment of international trade. They offer huge opportunities for SMEs in emerging markets and developing economies. But how do you convince potential clients that you offer cutting-edge IT services when your country is mainly known as an ex...
Bittersweet. Exporting cacao beans for a living (S7 - Ep2)
Let's talk trade by WTO - October 11, 2023 12:36 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsCocoa is an important export crop for West African countries. Yet, many of the smallholder cocoa farmers struggle to earn a decent livelihood. Assata Doumbia, president of the ECAM cooperative in Côte d'Ivoire, applies a mix of strategies to obtain higher and more predictable incomes for her fel...
Just do it. Learning to trade internationally (S7 - Ep1)
Let's talk trade by WTO - September 28, 2023 06:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsLack of information about export procedures is a known obstacle to trade for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. But there are learning tools available to get newcomers started. Confronted with the need to cut costs during the pandemic, Natali Tjahjadi, Operational Manager of CV Triguna...
Ralph Ossa on re-globalization
Let's talk trade by WTO - September 19, 2023 15:20 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn the face of recent crises in geopolitics, public health, and the environment, are people better served by the fragmentation of trading relationships or by a new kind of globalization? The WTO’s World Trade Report 2023 tackles the debate head on, as presented by Chief Economist Ralph Ossa.
Mia Mottley on "Reinventing the global order"
Let's talk trade by WTO - July 04, 2023 06:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsMia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, delivered a thought-provoking Presidential Lecture on "Reinventing the global order" at the WTO in March 2022. In her speech, she explored how the rules-based trading system can be part of the solution to the major problems facing the world today. In her ...
Trade Goals: Rules and referees (S5 – Ep7)
Let's talk trade by WTO - November 25, 2022 10:31 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWithout rules and referees there would be no game. Each football match is policed by a cwho has full authority to enforce the law of the game. In multilateral trade, we have plenty of rules but no all-powerful referee to supervise them. The ultimate control on trade disputes remains with the WTO...
Trade Goals: The Game (S5 – Ep6)
Let's talk trade by WTO - November 18, 2022 15:51 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsFootball video games are popular wherever people have access to the internet. The games are part of the much larger e-sports universe of competitive video gaming. In this episode of the Trade Goals podcast, Michael Roberts and Antonia Carzaniga explore how playing the beautiful game in a virtual...
Trade Goals: Fans (S5 – Ep5)
Let's talk trade by WTO - November 15, 2022 16:10 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsFootball fans' love of the game generates plenty of revenue. The major sources of income in football are merchandising, sponsoring and broadcasting rights. All of these rely on intellectual property (IP) rights. In this episode of the Trade Goals podcast, Wolf Meier-Ewert and Jana Borges cast li...
Trade Goals: Players (S5 – Ep4)
Let's talk trade by WTO - November 08, 2022 17:03 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsA football game is a service and the clubs that are organizing football matches are providing recreational services. International trade rules may apply when the players on the pitch come from different countries, when a club is foreign-owned, when matches are broadcast internationally or when f...
Trade Goals: Pitches (S5 – Ep3)
Let's talk trade by WTO - November 04, 2022 14:24 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsAn incredible amount of work is needed to create a perfect football pitch. A lot of international trade is involved, too. In this episode of the "Trade Goals" podcast, players rave about fast pitches, tournament organisers praise robust playing surfaces and seed industry representatives explain...
Trade Goals: Footballs (S5 – Ep2)
Let's talk trade by WTO - November 01, 2022 11:23 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsFootballs are an indispensable item in the global value chain of the beautiful game. Manufacturing, distributing and selling the balls is a complex international business. It is difficult to pinpoint where in the world a ball is actually made because the sourcing of raw materials, the design a...
Trade Goals: Welcome to "the beautiful global value chain" (S5 – Ep1)
Let's talk trade by WTO - October 28, 2022 09:41 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThere is probably no group of people who will talk with more passion and expertise about trade-related aspects of the game of football than soccer enthusiasts within the WTO. In this first episode of "Trade Goals", we introduce a group of WTO pundits with deep knowledge in realms such as trade ...
WTO reform & e-commerce (S4 – Ep5)
Let's talk trade by WTO - August 05, 2022 15:06 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsInternational trade has progressed enormously since the founding of the WTO in 1995. The world trades a lot more – from just over 5 trillion dollars' worth of goods in 1995 to more than 22 trillion dollars in 2021. The world also trades in new ways - e-commerce accounts for more than 20 percent o...
Food security (S4 – Ep4)
Let's talk trade by WTO - August 02, 2022 08:11 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsEven in less stressful times, agriculture talks at the WTO tend to be difficult and highly emotional. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how important fundamental questions regarding food and health are to all of us. Complicating the situation have been developments such as the war in Ukraine...
Pandemic response (S4 - Ep3)
Let's talk trade by WTO - July 28, 2022 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt was the most hotly debated issue in the run-up to MC12 and at the very last minute, negotiations nearly broke down because of a footnote. The issue was the WTO's intellectual property response to the COVID-19 pandemic, commonly known as the TRIPS waiver. There is good news to report in this e...
Fisheries subsidies (S4 - Ep2)
Let's talk trade by WTO - July 25, 2022 12:45 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsOur ocean, the planet's largest ecosystem, is endangered by overfishing. What's the WTO got to do with it, you may ask. By prohibiting harmful fisheries subsidies that contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, WTO members agreed to play their role in the sustainable use of marine resources. Lis...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: We can work it out (S4 -Ep1)
Let's talk trade by WTO - July 19, 2022 09:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhen ministers and other delegates filed out of the World Trade Organization's Council Room on 17 June, night was giving way to dawn in Geneva. WTO members had just gavelled a historic package of results after five and a half days of intense and sometimes fraught negotiations. Let's Talk Trade lo...
Wondery Presents: Who Killed Daphne?
9/12 - July 11, 2022 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsWhen a car bomb kills Daphne Caruana Galizia on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Malta, the hunt for her killers exposes secrets with consequences that go far beyond its shores. In the aftermath of her death an international team of journalists comes together to continue her work. ...
Introducing: Project Unabom
9/12 - June 27, 2022 08:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsWhen the Unabomber was arrested in 1996, the world got it’s first glimpse of the serial bomber who had terrorized the nation for 18 years and murdered three people. Bearded and disheveled, he was the perfect depiction of a mad bomber. But what actually happened during those 18 years? Wh...
The future: what's next for supply chains? (S3 – Ep6)
Let's talk trade by WTO - June 09, 2022 07:30 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this season finale, we ask WTO Deputy Director-General Anabel González: are you worried? She helps us navigate through the ongoing "polycrisis" of inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical conflicts, and climate change, and marks out the pathway for more resilient supply chains. Acce...
Wondery Presents Persona: The French Deception
9/12 - June 06, 2022 08:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsIntroducing the true crime podcast Persona: The French Deception— the story of Gilbert Chikli, one of the greatest con artists of all time. What does it feel like to pick up the phone and scam someone out of $50 million? Host and award-winning journalist, Evan Ratliff, investigates how...
Stuck on the wrong end (S3 – Ep5)
Let's talk trade by WTO - June 02, 2022 06:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsLarger economies and businesses may already be finding their way to absorb the shocks of the supply chain crisis, but that is less the case for smaller players. We throw the spotlight on developing countries and micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises who find themselves bypassed by major trad...
The pandemic consumer (S3 – Ep4)
Let's talk trade by WTO - May 19, 2022 14:06 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe hold up a mirror to another important link in the supply chain: us, the consumers. How have our shopping habits changed during the pandemic and will we see lasting effects on trade, thanks in part to technology? The episode features Jessica Moulton, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, Sushan...
Port side: transport and logistics (S3 – Ep3)
Let's talk trade by WTO - May 13, 2022 16:24 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhether by air, road, or sea, in this episode we hear how all these trade channels had their share of disruptions as part of the global supply chain crisis. The episode features Lars Mikael Jensen of Maersk, Clemence Cheng of Hutchison Ports, Matthias Maedge of the World Road Transport Organisati...
The supply side: manufacturers' perspectives (S3 – Ep2)
Let's talk trade by WTO - May 05, 2022 13:44 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe factory floor is our first stop on this journey tracing the flow of goods along global supply chains. How were manufacturers affected by recent disruptions and how are they adapting to a multi-crisis reality? We hear from Joachim Damasky of the German Association of the Automotive Industry, A...
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