Arancha Gonzalez Quotes

Arancha Gonzalez

Profession : Economist

Birth : May 22, 1969

Women are the most underutilized 'resource' in the world economy.

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Gender-based job restrictions tend to be associated with wider wage gaps and lower employment rates for women. And where girls' future earning potential is limited, families may choose to send their brothers to school instead.

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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.

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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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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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Fully implementing the WTO trade facilitation agreement is one ingredient to reduce border delays and costs for traded merchandise.

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You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.

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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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Women are the half of the engine of our societies; they are half of the engines of our economies.

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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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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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Trade and investment promotion organizations are crucial partners in ITC's work to enable SMEs to internationalize. They sustain and multiply the impact of trade-related technical support and allow SMEs to function with confidence in any location.

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Improving SME productivity translates into more and better paying jobs, distributed across less fortunate sections of the economy.

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Governments everywhere have ministries dedicated to women's affairs. I know of only one with a Ministry for Women Empowerment: Indonesia. Charged with the 'realization of gender equality and justice' together with children's well-being, the ministry frames gender equality as a matter of justice.

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Creating large numbers of decent jobs for young people is critical for achieving overall development objectives, from poverty reduction to better health and education.

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Entrepreneurship is one of the most important drivers for job creation. Moreover, social entrepreneurship offers not only a path for young people to transform their own lives, but also a way to empower others.

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I think that when voters react negatively to trade and investment, they are really expressing their angst about the pace of technological change.

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Africans don't just need more jobs: they need better jobs.

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African pressure has led the E.U. to rethink part of its agricultural subsidy programme.

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Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use in Asia and Latin America in the 1960s.

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