Arancha Gonzalez Quotes
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While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries.
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It makes perfect economic sense to integrate women in the economy in the developing world in order to catch up with advanced countries, thereby minimising socioeconomic costs as well.
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Governments around the world are looking for economic growth and job creation. African economies are no exception, with increasing recognition that growth has to be built on a more diversified economic structure in order to make a lasting contribution to development.
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The tourism industry has considerable potential to be a sustainability role model in its role as a buyer of goods and other services, from building materials and green construction standards to farm produce.
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A.P., like the rest of India, has huge potential to move up the value chain by investing in small and medium enterprises to create more value addition and better paid jobs.
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Through the SITA initiative, we are building bridges between India and East Africa by taking Indian companies to these countries to see with their own eyes what the opportunities are.
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Sometimes all it takes to connect entrepreneurs to overseas buyers is to get them into the same room.
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I have been talking to trade ministers in various countries who all say that gender inclusivity is important to them. We need to make this importance visible to the rest of the world and catalyse action towards more inclusive trade.
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We survey companies and ask them what the barriers to export and import are. Once we map these barriers, we sit down with the companies on one side and the government and regulatory agencies on the other and help them identify obstacles to trade and what has to be done to tackle them.
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Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use in Asia and Latin America in the 1960s.
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Women are the half of the engine of our societies; they are half of the engines of our economies.
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Consumers need more insight into the goods and services they purchase. Businesses need to produce those goods and services more sustainably.
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E-commerce is a powerful means to connect the unconnected to global trade.
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Exporting firms are more productive and pay higher wages than their domestically focused counterparts, especially in places like Sub-Saharan Africa. If firms manage to thrive in world markets, they tend to increase their productivity even more.
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African pressure has led the E.U. to rethink part of its agricultural subsidy programme.
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Economic policy that adheres to the tenets of orthodoxy while failing to deliver for large sections of society is doomed to fail.
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It is no coincidence that in the wake of the Arab Spring, investment in youth-related initiatives, especially related to employment, has increased sharply.
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Improving SME productivity translates into more and better paying jobs, distributed across less fortunate sections of the economy.
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Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.
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Growth without diversification, technological improvement, and increased productivity is easily reversed: all it takes is a dip in commodity prices.
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Around the world, it is much more difficult for women than for men to run a successful business. Even when laws are not explicitly biased against them, companies owned and operated by women often face discrimination every step of the way, from obtaining finance to finding customers.
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Our main aim globally is to connect more women to the economy because we know there is a specific market failure there: women are having more difficulty in business than men.
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Women are the most underutilized 'resource' in the world economy.
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Gender-based job restrictions tend to be associated with wider wage gaps and lower employment rates for women. And where girls' future earning potential is limited, families may choose to send their brothers to school instead.