Joakim Reiter: Global Trade and Payments Grow Together

Joakim Reiter: Global Trade and Payments Grow Together

Experts have noticed recently that global trade is not growing. An I.M.F. study calculated that a 1 percent increase in global growth increased trade volumes by 2.5 percent in the 1990s, while in recent years, the same growth has increased trade by just 0.7 percent.

Ripple Insights discussed what this shift means with Joakim Reiter, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

Read the interview here.

Joakim Reiter comments "Think of trade as a complex, precise machine. Payments are the lubricant to that machine. It allows the pieces to move in close proximity to one another and keep moving. The machine is changing, and when the machine changes, the lube changes."

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