Arancha Gonzalez Quotes
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The factory work that lifted millions out of poverty in places like China and Vietnam probably did cost some workers in North Carolina and Wallonia their jobs.
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Everything we produce and consume has an impact on the environment, on social fabrics, and on the economy. This impact can be positive or negative and, frequently, some combination of the two.
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It has been proven through studies by the World Bank and others that companies participating in international trade are more competitive.
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ITC looks forward to working with the chief minister and the government of India to ensure trade leads to impact on the ground.
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The unfolding migratory crisis has become one of the most acute challenges facing the international community. Millions of lives are at stake. All of us have a responsibility to act. Collectively, we need to find solutions.
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Skills development as a means to income generation is the key to integrate vulnerable migrants into the mainstream of society and to equip them for an eventual return home.
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Inward-looking unilateral trade policies invite retaliation.
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I have seen African countries negotiate bilaterally and within the WTO. African countries come to the WTO prepared and defend their interests with vigour.
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Large companies everywhere tend to be more productive than small ones. But the gap in productivity is far wider in developing countries.
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Africans don't just need more jobs: they need better jobs.
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China has proven that the wellbeing of citizens in a country doesn't necessarily contradict its engagement globally.
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Through trade reforms, Latin American countries can boost their competitiveness in markets for goods and services.
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The fact is that during the post-1989 heyday of globalization optimism, political and business elites did not think enough about the prospect - plainly predicted in economic theory - that trade would harm some people even while leaving society as a whole better off. The result was overpromised benefits and inadequate adjustment plans.
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The most difficult part of Brexit will be to figure out the trade regime between the U.K. and the rest of the E.U. because the level of trade integration between the members of the E.U. is the deepest in the world and integrates regulations that govern how products and services are produced and sold within the E.U.
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In my experience, what is often missing between intent and action is the knowledge and the means to actually change the way we do business or make consumer decisions.
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Without action to de-carbonize our economies, unchecked climate change threatens to batter lives and economies around the world, hitting the poorest people hardest.
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If governments start to go it alone on trade, it will become harder, not easier, to generate the jobs and rising incomes that angry electorates want.
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Through e-commerce, women have found a means to jump over cultural and traditional lack of available time for remunerated activities.
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International consumers can rest assured that their quinoa purchases have benefited some of Latin America's poorest people, together with their families.
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In their pursuit of growth and diversification, African economies should consider transforming the discourse from a focus on industrialisation to a broader one centred on value addition in agriculture, manufacturing, and services.
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Look at a map of the world: the countries which do not trade much, or which trade only in oil and gas, tend to be in regions which suffer the most social and political instability.
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Most people - including business leaders - want a healthy future for their children.
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Predictably, open markets made it possible for countries to drive rapid growth by hitching their wagon to the world economy and using global demand to pull people and resources out of subsistence activities into more productive work.
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Entrepreneurs - both women and men - need equal and fair access to finance - to create new businesses, to reach to new markets, and to adapt to climate change.