Responsive governments committed to improving the broader trade facilitation and business environment can help companies of all sizes by improving infrastructure: roads, transportation, ports, information and communication technology, and electricity.

Arancha Gonzalez

Laws matter. With effective implementation and enforcement, good laws can nudge forward positive changes in social and cultural mores.

Arancha Gonzalez

It has been proven through studies by the World Bank and others that companies participating in international trade are more competitive.

Arancha Gonzalez

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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes all it takes to connect entrepreneurs to overseas buyers is to get them into the same room.

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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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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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While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries.

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Ever since the first power looms put weavers out of work in the late 18th century, technology has increased productivity but threatened jobs for humans.

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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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China has proven that the wellbeing of citizens in a country doesn't necessarily contradict its engagement globally.

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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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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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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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Latin Americans are all too familiar with the boom and bust cycles associated with economic populism.

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Arancha Gonzalez Quotes

Responsive governments committed to improving the broader trade facilitation and business environment can help companies of all sizes by improving infrastructure: roads, transportation, ports, information and communication technology, and electricity.

Laws matter. With effective implementation and enforcement, good laws can nudge forward positive changes in social and cultural mores.

It has been proven through studies by the World Bank and others that companies participating in international trade are more competitive.

Through e-commerce, women have found a means to jump over cultural and traditional lack of available time for remunerated activities.

I have seen African countries negotiate bilaterally and within the WTO. African countries come to the WTO prepared and defend their interests with vigour.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes all it takes to connect entrepreneurs to overseas buyers is to get them into the same room.

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.

Economic policy that adheres to the tenets of orthodoxy while failing to deliver for large sections of society is doomed to fail.

While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries.

Ever since the first power looms put weavers out of work in the late 18th century, technology has increased productivity but threatened jobs for humans.

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.

China has proven that the wellbeing of citizens in a country doesn't necessarily contradict its engagement globally.

Growth without diversification, technological improvement, and increased productivity is easily reversed: all it takes is a dip in commodity prices.

Large companies everywhere tend to be more productive than small ones. But the gap in productivity is far wider in developing countries.

Latin Americans are all too familiar with the boom and bust cycles associated with economic populism.