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. One thing is sure, the region...

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?...

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.

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...

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...

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...

President Trump sends out a tweet instructing all American business to stop trading with China. If they did, it would break the global trading system overnight. Meanwhile countries like New Zealand need more friends and more trade deals, not less. But...

Bonus episode with Soumaya Keynes, US Economics Editor for The Economist magazine. She says the collapse of the World Trade Organisation is imminent, and while Trump may be temporary, the damage done to the international trade system isn't.

The global economy is on a knife edge. Trade wars escalate. The World Trade Organisation limps on. How does New Zealand stay out of trouble? Economists, Shamubeel Eaqub, former CEO of Xero Rod Drury, and NZ Herald’s Business Editor-at-Large, Liam...

On the Map takes you into the world of trade wars, good deals and bad deals, and New Zealand’s place in the world.