Article – BusinessDesk Dec. 3 (BusinessDesk) South Korea has suddenly emerged as willing would-be partner in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement, as well as announcing today it was resuming negotiations with New Zealand on a free trade deal.
Article – BusinessDesk Dec. 3 (BusinessDesk) South Korea has suddenly emerged as willing would-be partner in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement, as well as announcing today it was resuming negotiations with New Zealand on a free trade deal.
Column – Gordon Campbell Everyone likes the new-ish Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right? Why, his so called Abe-nomics promises to deliver Japan from two decades of economic malaise, by embracing the supply side prescriptions endorsed by right thinking folks within …
Press Release – APEC APEC member economies are in a position to provide an added boost to the world economy and the multilateral trading system. This is vital to sustaining the gradual recovery that appears to be currently underway, said Gita Wirjawan, Indonesias Trade Minister …
Speech – New Zealand Government Let me start with a statement of principle. Its about the relatively open trade and payments system that we have inherited. It has flaws and shortcomings. There are many vulnerable developing countries at early stages of development that have …
Press Release – Asian Development Bank Asia has become increasingly integrated over the past decade, led by growing trade and tourism and, most recently, as the region faced down the global financial crisis and subsequent eurozone crisis, according to a new integration index published in …
Column – Gordon Campbell Hugo Chavez has been an example of how much a Third World nation can achieve when it takes control of its natural resources from the US and its corporate allies, and uses them to benefit its own people and the region.
Column – Gordon Campbell Let’s hope Prime Minister John Key looks and listens during this weeks overseas trip to Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Brazil. Theres so much he could learn. In Brazil, Key could benefit from seeing the steps this economic powerhouse is taking …
Press Release – New Zealand Nurses Organisation The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is concerned that, despite the Prime Minister’s previous assurances that the fundamentals of New Zealand’s drug buying agency Pharmac would be protected during trade talks, the opposite appears to be the case.
Column – Gordon Campbell New Zealand has been hosting the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks in Auckland for the past week, but you’d have to say things haven’t worked out quite as well as some had hoped. In fact, it has been a bit sad to watch, up close.
Column – Gordon Campbell While John Key was in Los Angeles wooing the US studio executives at dinner to bring more film projects to New Zealand, a significant piece of mutual wooing was almost simultaneously taking place on the other side of the Pacific rim.
Column – Gordon Campbell Once upon a time, the APEC gathering of nations threatened to become a significant free trade bloc in its own right. Remember the Bogor Goals of 1994? But these days, not so much, apart from a bit of fiddling around with eco-friendly tariff levels.
