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Eyes opened during India visit – published by Newsroom, September 2023
By Stephen Jacobi[1] Stephen Jacobi reports on the recent business delegation to India Every country has its contrasts and a subcontinent of 1.4 billion with thousands of years of history has more than most. Today’s India can reach the moon, build super-highways...
Crunch time for CPTPP – published by NZ Herald, August 2023
By Stephen Jacobi, Executive Director, NZ International Business Forum. Following the Ministers’ meeting in Auckland, what is the outlook for CPTPP as the world’s most ambitious free trade agreement? When Ministers representing the members of the Comprehensive and...
ADDRESS TO THE 52nd ONE STOP UPDATE FOR THE ACCOUNTANT IN BUSINESS
Stephen Jacobi gives a global economic update at the 52nd One Stop Update for the Accountant in Business.
Remarks to ASEAN Business Council Webinar, 26 April 2023
Stephen Jacobi addresses the ASEAN Business Council Webinar about US/China tensions and the implications for ASEAN.
Remarks to Confederation of Indian Industry Partnership Summit, New Delhi, 15 March 2023
Stephen Jacobi’s address to the Confederation of Indian Industry Partnership Summit, New Delhi, about “The Future of Multilateralism”.
AMIDST THE STORM: ABAC MEETS IN AUCKLAND
Perhaps a cyclone was after all a fitting backdrop for the meeting of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) which was held in Auckland on 12-14 February – the global environment against which the meeting took place is decidedly stormy.
Of Interest Podcast: Stephen Jacobi on the importance of NZ’s trade relationship with China, the risks to it, and opportunities to diversify to other countries
Stephen Jacobi on the importance of NZ’s trade relationship with China, the risks to it, and opportunities to diversify to other countries
TradeWindow: Digital trade provides hope through challenging times
It won’t come as a surprise to many people to hear that we remain in a very challenging situation when it comes to global business. Our exporters are operating in an environment that is difficult to navigate due to continuing uncertainties – the seemingly endless...
THE NZ/EU FTA IS LIKE THE CURATE’S EGG
In which we like the good parts of the NZ EU FTA…. Who remembers the curate’s egg? It’s when the nervous Curate, asked by the Bishop, if everything is ok with his boiled egg, replies “It’s good in parts, my Lord”. So too the recently concluded NZ/EU FTA, which has...