Arancha Gonzalez Quotes
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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 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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Full social and political engagement is impossible without economic empowerment, a point that is as true for women as it is for young people of either gender.
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Latin Americans are all too familiar with the boom and bust cycles associated with economic populism.
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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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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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The deeper your regional integration, the more value chain activity you generate, but the more you close the gap between your small and your large companies.
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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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China has proven that the wellbeing of citizens in a country doesn't necessarily contradict its engagement globally.
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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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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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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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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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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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You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.
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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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The social and legal discrimination that relegates hundreds of women to subordinate or marginal economic roles has a huge aggregate cost.