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...
911 Free Fall, November 10, 2022
911 Free Fall with Andy Steele - November 11, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings911 Free Fall with Andy Steele Achilles’ heels and silver bullets that annihilate the official 9/11 story This week on 9/11 Free Fall, Ted Walter and Andy Steele get together to discuss certain aspects of the controlled demolition evidence that often get overlooked but are fatal to the official...
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 ...
911 Free Fall, October 27, 2022
911 Free Fall with Andy Steele - October 28, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings911 Free Fall with Andy Steele Engineer Jef Bishop: ‘You don’t keep the public safe by lying about why that building collapsed’ This week on 9/11 Free Fall, engineer Jef Bishop joins host Andy Steele to give a recap of his recent, very well-received presentation on Building 7 to the Biloxi, Mis...
911 Free Fall, October 5, 2022
911 Free Fall with Andy Steele - October 06, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings911 Free Fall with Andy Steele ASCE: The holy scripture of 9/11 will not be challenged Richard Johns, co-author of a long-censored technical paper on the Twin Towers’ destruction, and AE911Truth’s Ted Walter are this week’s guests on 9/11 Free Fall. They talk with host Andy Steele about the la...
911 Free Fall, September 29, 2022
911 Free Fall with Andy Steele - September 30, 2022 07:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings911 Free Fall with Andy Steele Engineer Brian Thompson on analyzing the South Tower and standing up to the official story Engineer Brian Thompson, who spoke at AE911Truth's "Forbidden Truth" symposium, joins host Andy Steele to discuss how he was brought into the fight for 9/11 Truth, the need ...
911 Free Fall, September 22, 2022
911 Free Fall with Andy Steele - September 23, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings911 Free Fall with Andy Steele Aiming for Checkmate: Ted Walter on defeating the 9/11 cover-up This week on 9/11 Free Fall, AE911Truth Director of Strategy Ted Walter joins host Andy Steele to discuss the organization's forthcoming book, Debunking Popular Mechanics, and several other ongoing ef...
911 Free Fall, September 1, 2022
911 Free Fall with Andy Steele - September 02, 2022 07:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings911 Free Fall with Andy Steele How the TV networks hid the Twin Towers’ explosive demolition: An interview with Graeme MacQueen This week on 9/11 Free Fall, distinguished 9/11 scholar Graeme MacQueen joins host Andy Steele to talk about the soon-to-be-published paper he co-authored with Ted Wal...
911 Free Fall, August 11, 2022
911 Free Fall with Andy Steele - August 12, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings911 Free Fall with Andy Steele Fighting for Truth and Basic Accountability: Mick Harrison and Ted Walter on the NIST Building 7 lawsuit This week on 9/11 Free Fall, attorney Mick Harrison and AE911Truth Director of Strategy Ted Walter join host Andy Steele to break down the latest on AE911Truth...
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...
911 Free Fall, August 2, 2022
911 Free Fall with Andy Steele - August 03, 2022 07:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings911 Free Fall with Andy Steele ‘Facts Will Always Defeat Fear’: Eric Francis-Wright on the post-9/11 world This week on 9/11 Free Fall, structural engineer Eric Francis-Wright joins host Andy Steele to talk about his experience as a young boy in Queens on September 11, 2001; about being an engi...
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...
911 Free Fall, July 19, 2022
911 Free Fall with Andy Steele - July 20, 2022 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings911 Free Fall with Andy Steele Architect and US Naval Commander Warren Smith: It's not un-American to question 9/11 Former US Naval Reserve commander and practicing architect Warren Smith, based in New York's Hudson Valley, shares his perspective on the WTC controlled demolition evidence with h...
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