The Weekly Tradecast explores how major economic events are affecting developing countries and the lives of billions of people.
This episode of the Weekly Tradecast talks about fertilizer and how harvests could wilt without more supply at cheaper prices with UNCTAD’s Sangram Rane, who is part of the UN task team focused on tackling global food insecurity.
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.