Auckland, 21 October 2024. NZIBF Executive Director Stephen Jacobi gives an address to Brightstar's 55th One Stop Update for the Accountant in Business. Watch the full video below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO6A2hh2rPk
By Stephen Jacobi [1] As published by Newsroom, 6 December 2024 There’s not much shouting about TPP these days, but more passion would be a good thing. Time was when “TPPA” could bring tens of thousands to the streets. These days the annual Ministerial meeting of the...
Stephen Jacobi on APEC, WTO, doubling trade exports, big ideas like Southern Link, independent thinking & risks of a red line with AUKUS P2. This interview was recorded on Tue 19 Nov, 2024 in Wellington, NZ at Diplosphere HQ. Watch the full video here.
By Stephen Jacobi History has much to teach us about the way trade contributes to prosperity through the movement of goods, services, people, and ideas. Today, data can be added to this web of inter-regional transactions. Yet, amidst a proliferation of trade...
By Stephen Jacobi “Twas the week before Christmas, When all through the house Not a creature was stirring, Except busy trade officials … ‘Tis the season to be “BiM-ing”* and the NZ International Business Forum has sent its Christmas wish list to newly installed Trade...
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...
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...
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.
Stephen Jacobi on the importance of NZ’s trade relationship with China, the risks to it, and opportunities to diversify to other countries