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The Agenda PodcastChina's AgendaSend us a textIn this CGTN special - China Agenda – Juliet Mann and her guests consider the outcomes of this year's Two Sessions gatherings and what it all means for China, and the rest of the world.Further modernisation, innovation driven development and further opening up were all key themes at the gatherings, but what will this all look like in practice? Juliet is joined by Pascal Lamy, former Director General of the World Trade Organisation, Bert Hofman, Professor at the East Asian Institute of the National University Singapore and former China...
2025-03-1729 min
Development FuturesLowy Institute Re-Cast: Development Futures: Bert Hofman on China’s economyAs part of the Lowy Institute Re-Cast series, we are republishing the best podcasts of 2024. In case you missed them the first time around or if you want revisit these engaging conversations, the Re-Cast series has you covered. China is facing many economic problems, at home and abroad. The two are connected. Weak demand at home has contributed to a sharp rise in Chinese manufacturing exports, especially in green technologies such as electric vehicles. Surging Chinese exports have in turn prompted a backlash from the United States, Europe, and others who accuse China of exporting overcapacity and...
2024-12-3135 minLowy InstituteLowy Institute Re-Cast: Development Futures: Bert Hofman on China’s economyAs part of the Lowy Institute Re-Cast series, we are republishing the best podcasts of 2024. In case you missed them the first time around or if you want revisit these engaging conversations, the Re-Cast series has you covered. China is facing many economic problems, at home and abroad. The two are connected. Weak demand at home has contributed to a sharp rise in Chinese manufacturing exports, especially in green technologies such as electric vehicles. Surging Chinese exports have in turn prompted a backlash from the United States, Europe, and others who accuse China of exporting overcapacity and...
2024-12-3135 min
Development FuturesDevelopment Futures: Bert Hofman on China’s economyChina is facing many economic problems, at home and abroad. The two are connected. Weak demand at home has contributed to a sharp rise in Chinese manufacturing exports, especially in green technologies such as electric vehicles. Surging Chinese exports have in turn prompted a backlash from the United States, Europe, and others who accuse China of exporting overcapacity and damaging their own green industrial ambitions. In this episode, Roland Rajah, Director of the Indo-Pacific Development Centre (IPDC), talks with Dr Bert Hofman, one of the leading international experts on China’s economy and a widely respected development ec...
2024-05-1735 minLowy InstituteDevelopment Futures: Bert Hofman on China’s economyChina is facing many economic problems, at home and abroad. The two are connected. Weak demand at home has contributed to a sharp rise in Chinese manufacturing exports, especially in green technologies such as electric vehicles. Surging Chinese exports have in turn prompted a backlash from the United States, Europe, and others who accuse China of exporting overcapacity and damaging their own green industrial ambitions. In this episode, Roland Rajah, Director of the Indo-Pacific Development Centre (IPDC), talks with Dr Bert Hofman, one of the leading international experts on China’s economy and a widely respected development ec...
2024-05-1735 minThe Agenda PodcastChina's Agenda - a Two Sessions SpecialSend us a textNew quality productive forces.This was one of the key messages from the annual Two Sessions in Beijing. The term, coined by China's President Xi Jinping in September 2023 during a local visit, is viewed in the sessions as key to maintaining and enhancing the quality of China's growth. In wide-ranging discussions on everything from continued economic growth and upgrading to an increased desire for high quality opening up, this new approach to innovation was front and center. China's role on the world stage was also in the spotlight, with Fo...
2024-03-1328 min
Kopi Time podcast with Taimur BaigKopi Time E118: Bert Hofman on China’s NPC, deflation, trade/tech war, industrial policyBert Hofman, adjunct Professor at the East Asian Institute at National University of Singapore, returns to Kopi Time to comment on the National People’s Congress of China and the direction of policy in the coming years. We also talk about the property sector crisis, ways to revive business and consumer confidence, deflation risks, green transition, trade and tech war, and industrial policy. Bert also has interesting insights on the preference of the Chinese leadership in dealing with a Biden or Trump presidency. Worth a listen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2024-03-0651 minKopi Time podcast with Taimur BaigKopi Time E118: Bert Hofman on China’s NPC, deflation, trade/tech war, industrial policyBert Hofman, adjunct Professor at the East Asian Institute at National University of Singapore, returns to Kopi Time to comment on the National People’s Congress of China and the direction of policy in the coming years. We also talk about the property sector crisis, ways to revive business and consumer confidence, deflation risks, green transition, trade and tech war, and industrial policy. Bert also has interesting insights on the preference of the Chinese leadership in dealing with a Biden or Trump presidency. Worth a listen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2024-03-0651 min
MERICS China PodcastChina’s economic trajectory, with Bert Hofman and Jacob GunterAfter a decade in power, party and state leader Xi Jinping has fundamentally reshaped China’s political economy in pursuit of the Chinese Communist Party’s long-term goal: to return to a strong and prosperous China at the heart of the global economy. As the CCP approaches the 2023 Third Plenum, an event which will give important indications on the future of China’s economy, Christine Krüger is talking to Bert Hofman, Director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, and Senior Associate Fellow at MERICS, and Jacob Gunter, Lead An...
2023-10-1227 min
Dit Was De RadioS08 E02 DWDR 127 - Maxim Hartman zorgt voor vuurwerk en Giorgio is zwangerJe vaste dosis verhalen, analyses en een gulle lach over dat fraaie medium: de radio!Met in aflevering 127:Midden in de zomer zit zomaar Bas van Teylingen drie weken de ochtendshow te doen op Radio Veronica. Online waren er veel complimenten voor zijn verbastering van de hit 'Flappie', naar een 'Van Moof'-lied. We luisteren en vragen ons af: kan Rick van Velthuysen nu wel thuisblijven of niet?Op verzoek van Harm luisteren we naar Maxim Hartman die te gast was in 'De Perstribune'. Hij zorgt daar voor spannende radio! Aan Ron de vraag: hoe was 't...
2023-08-221h 13
Kopi Time podcast with Taimur BaigKopi Time E093 - China Outlook with Bert HofmanBert Hofman, Director of the East Asian Institute at National University of Singapore and former World Bank Country Director for China (2014-19), provides a sweeping overview of China’s outlook and key risks ahead. We begin with several nuances to the evolution of China’s zero-Covid policy and economic policies in the near term. Bert then offers insights into the property sector, and fiscal-structural policies that are likely to be deployed to deal its debt overhang. In his professional role, Bert devotes considerable time analysing China’s fiscal position and reforms outlook; here he walks us throug...
2023-02-011h 07Kopi Time podcast with Taimur BaigKopi Time E093 - China Outlook with Bert HofmanBert Hofman, Director of the East Asian Institute at National University of Singapore and former World Bank Country Director for China (2014-19), provides a sweeping overview of China’s outlook and key risks ahead. We begin with several nuances to the evolution of China’s zero-Covid policy and economic policies in the near term. Bert then offers insights into the property sector, and fiscal-structural policies that are likely to be deployed to deal its debt overhang. In his professional role, Bert devotes considerable time analysing China’s fiscal position and reforms outlook; here he walks us throug...
2023-02-011h 07
SinicaIs China’s demography China’s destiny? A chat with former World Bank economist Bert HofmanWhen the National Bureau of Statistics recently revealed that China’s population had shrunk in 2022 for the first time in 60 years, conventional wisdom predicted...
2023-01-2500 min
Sinica PodcastIs China's demography China's destiny? A chat with former World Bank economist Bert HofmanWhen the National Bureau of Statistics recently revealed that China's population had shrunk in 2022 for the first time in 60 years, conventional wisdom predicted that China was headed for catastrophe, as its workforce shrank, its pension coffers dried up, and its healthcare system grew overtaxed. Not so fast, says Bert Hofman, who spent 22 years in Asia with the World Bank, focused chiefly on China. Now a professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Government at the National University of Singapore, Bert offers a deeply-informed take on the challenges China does face — and how it might address them without suffering ec...
2023-01-2550 min
Sinica Early AccessIs China's demography China's destiny? A chat with former World Bank economist Bert HofmanWhen the National Bureau of Statistics recently revealed that China's population had shrunk in 2022 for the first time in 60 years, conventional wisdom predicted that China was headed for catastrophe, as its workforce shrank, its pension coffers dried up, and its healthcare system grew overtaxed. Not so fast, says Bert Hofman, who spent 22 years in Asia with the World Bank, focused chiefly on China. Now a professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Government at the National University of Singapore, Bert offers a deeply-informed take on the challenges China does face — and how it might address them without suffering ec...
2023-01-2450 minMERICS China PodcastHow Beijing could make progress with its common prosperity agenda, with Bert Hofmann and Mikko HuotariAt the National People's Congress that is about to wrap up in Beijing, Premier Li Keqiang reiterated the ambitious "Common Prosperity" policy. Joint efforts in line with the opening-up policy would be needed to achieve this ambitious goal, Li said at a press conference. In this episode of our podcast, Bert Hofman, the Director of the East Asian Institute at National University of Singapore and MERICS Executive Director Mikko Huotari discuss the instruments China relies on in its efforts for a more equal distribution of income and wealth with MERICS Director Communications and...
2022-03-1123 min
RadioReuzenDe Meurders Methode, met oa Frits Spits, Dolf Jansen en Willemijn VeenhovenWaarom kan Felix Meurders (74) álles op de radio? Muziek, sport, actualiteiten, talkshow, politiek, hitparades, amusement, presenteren, regisseren, verslaggeven. Hij doet het al meer dan vijftig jaar en lijkt in alles even goed. Op zijn veertigste, in 1986, stopte hij helemaal met muziekradio, maar deze maand pakte hij die toch weer op. Hij lanceerde zijn nieuwe radioprogramma FM op 5 op NPO Radio 5. Hij kan het nog steeds, en hoe! Wat is zijn geheim? Wat is de Meurders-methode?
Aan de hand van fragmenten uit programma’s van Felix Meurders praat Bert Kranenbarg met mensen die hem goed kennen als collega: Frits Spits, Jan Dou...
2021-01-281h 30
The Sound of EconomicsA rushed deal or a rush to judgement?On 30 November 2020 after over 7 years of talks, the European Union and China concluded negotiations for a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI for short).
The agreement is intended to increase investment between the EU and China by establishing a legal framework and common rules on issues ranging from state-owned enterprises to subsidy transparency and rules against the forced transfer of technologies. The deal replaces more than two dozen bilateral investment treaties between the EU’s 27 member states and China, improving market access for European companies operating — or intending to operate — in China and ensuring a level playing field and recipr...
2021-01-2736 min
Met Nerds om Tafel - een podcast over technologie, wetenschap en popcultuurde wortel van het internet en waarom je manager minder stom is dan je denkt - met Bert Hubert van PowerDNSBert Hubert is de man achter PowerDNS, een van de handvol bekende Domain Name System-servers die het internet laten werken zoals jij gewend bent. Wat DNS precies is en hoe mannen met baarden het de wortel van het internet vormen leer je in deze aflevering. Bert zou geen ware nerd zijn als hij niet als hobby had om satellieten te volgen via een zelfgebouwd monitorsysteem, en als ervaringsdeskundige vertelt hij ons waarom nerds de lease-auto van hun manager misschien vaker complimentjes moeten geven.Deze aflevering wordt mogelijk gemaakt door Farhaz ‘Hazzie’ Hofman, en vraag aandacht voor depressie.T...
2019-11-071h 36