Arancha Gonzalez Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Economic desperation often drives wildlife destruction like poaching or illegal logging. But trade can help create powerful financial incentives for communities to preserve the biodiversity around 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jobs are the main channel through which people share in - or are left out of - economic growth.
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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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Fully implementing the WTO trade facilitation agreement is one ingredient to reduce border delays and costs for traded merchandise.
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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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The populists are right in one key area: voters want jobs and equitable growth, and can hardly be faulted for that. The challenge is to find a more inclusive growth trajectory that can be sustained economically, ecologically, and politically.
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The 'SheTrades' programme aims to connect one million women entrepreneurs to markets by 2020 with a campaign, a focussed networking app, and a range of international and national information resources.