The Weekly Tradecast explores how major economic events are affecting developing countries and the lives of billions of people.
In this special episode of the Weekly Tradecast, we’re talking to UNCTAD Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan – and looking back at the many challenges of this year and ahead to 2023.
This episode of the Weekly Tradecast talks to UNCTAD senior economist Penelope Hawkins about the sharp rise of the US dollar – and its effects on economies and people.
This episode of The Weekly Tradecast looks at who should pay to fix the damage from climate change with Katie Gallogly-Swan from UNCTAD’s globalization and development strategies division.
This episode of the Weekly Tradecast talks about central banks raising interest rates to tackle soaring inflation with Anastasia Nesvetailova, head of UNCTAD's macroeconomic and Development policies branch.
This episode of The Weekly Tradecast talks about the Trade and Development Report 2022 with economist and author Richard Kozul-Wright, director of UNCTAD’s globalization and development strategies division.
In this episode of The Weekly Tradecast, we’re talking about the global debt crisis with Penelope Hawkins, a senior economist in UNCTAD’s debt and development finance branch.
This episode of The Weekly Tradecast looks at the forces behind inflation with Jeronim Capaldo, an UNCTAD economist working on macroeconomic and development policies.
This episode of the Weekly Tradecast talks about how the war in Ukraine has compounded severe strains on global supply chains from the COVID-19 pandemic with Jan Hoffmann, head of UNCTAD's trade logistics branch.
This episode of the Weekly Tradecast explores economic diversification in Africa with Paul Akiwumi, UNCTAD's director for Africa and least developed countries.
In the first episode of the Weekly Tradecast, UNCTAD Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan talks about the global cost-of-living crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine and what can be done to help vulnerable countries and people who will suffer the most from rising food, energy and fertilizer prices.