Arancha Gonzalez Quotes
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Africans don't just need more jobs: they need better jobs.
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When the International Trade Centre, the agency I head, works with German electronics giant Bosch to help Kenyan food processing companies boost their productivity and export competitiveness, we may well be creating future customers for Bosch washing machines.
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In landlocked developing countries, geographical barriers to markets are unnecessarily accompanied by virtual ones: their e-connectivity rates are among the world's lowest.
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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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Jobs are the main channel through which people share in - or are left out of - economic growth.
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Latin Americans are all too familiar with the boom and bust cycles associated with economic populism.
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You only have a problem when you admit you have a problem.
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The representatives of young professionals and woman entrepreneurs deserve seats at the big table to evolve viable, efficient, and sustainable solutions for problems the world is faced with. Without their participation, there will always be a deficit of compassion and innovation.
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ITC works to help firms in poor countries become more competitive and overcome the barriers that are keeping their goods and services out of international markets.
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We often run the risk, when discussing women empowerment, to think that this is about women talking about women with other women, but this is not the point.
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There is no intrinsic reason African countries should be importing, rather than exporting, basic staples like rice or higher value products like frozen chicken, cooking oil, or instant noodles.
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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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Some of the anti-trade sentiment is the result of rising wealth inequality and stagnating real wages.
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Laws matter. With effective implementation and enforcement, good laws can nudge forward positive changes in social and cultural mores.
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Companies that operate across borders have the expertise SMEs need. Who better to help smallholder farmers navigate complex sustainability standards than the companies who demand - or set - them?
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You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.
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Fully implementing the WTO trade facilitation agreement is one ingredient to reduce border delays and costs for traded merchandise.
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Japan has huge potential in women - potential, especially in the area of the economy, that Japan is not using fully.
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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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The social and legal discrimination that relegates hundreds of women to subordinate or marginal economic roles has a huge aggregate cost.