On the Map with Josie Pagani NZME
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On the Map takes you into the world of trade wars, good deals and bad deals, and New Zealand’s place in the world.
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Aid or trade?
The Pacific is either one of the most aid dependent regions in the world, or its countries are on the brink of graduating to developed country status, thanks to new trade deals like Pacer Plus. Depends who you talk to.
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Show us the money
New Zealand businesses need investment but is it getting harder to bring international investment to New Zealand – and does that matter? Do we have enough domestic capital now, with Kiwisaver and the Cullen Fund, not to worry about foreign capital?...
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Trade is political
Josie Pagani talks to Jeff Schott, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, about the politics of trade in the US, what’s likely to happen next with trade wars, and the beleaguered WTO.
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The politics of trade in NZ
Trade has lifted more people out of poverty than almost anything else. So why is trade so political these days? Some of the left and the right have ended up in the same place – anti-establishment, anti trade deals, anti the World Trade Organisations...
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There’s still hope for trade
Professor Peter Petri, a founder of the Brandeis School of Business in Boston and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute talks about the CPTPP and other deals. He says these deals won’t suddenly make your life better, but they will knit economies...
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The Devil's in the detail
We pride ourselves on being a small trading nation that ‘punches above its weight’. But actually we’re not that good. Exports as a percentage of GDP are only around 28%, compared with about 60% in other small trading nations like Denmark. Ok, they’re...