When women are paid for their work and have control over how the money gets spent, they invest much more of their income than men do in their families' education and health.

Arancha Gonzalez

The unfolding migratory crisis has become one of the most acute challenges facing the international community. Millions of lives are at stake. All of us have a responsibility to act. Collectively, we need to find solutions.

Arancha Gonzalez

The tourism industry has considerable potential to be a sustainability role model in its role as a buyer of goods and other services, from building materials and green construction standards to farm produce.

Arancha Gonzalez

International consumers can rest assured that their quinoa purchases have benefited some of Latin America's poorest people, together with their families.

Arancha Gonzalez

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.

Arancha Gonzalez

It makes perfect economic sense to integrate women in the economy in the developing world in order to catch up with advanced countries, thereby minimising socioeconomic costs as well.

Arancha Gonzalez

You only have a problem when you admit you have a problem.

Arancha Gonzalez

Everything we produce and consume has an impact on the environment, on social fabrics, and on the economy. This impact can be positive or negative and, frequently, some combination of the two.

Arancha Gonzalez

Technology is making it easier for women to connect to business opportunities around the world. Legal obstacles must not be allowed to stand in their way. That's not just because it's economically smart. It's because discrimination shouldn't be the law.

Arancha Gonzalez

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.

Arancha Gonzalez

ITC looks forward to working with the chief minister and the government of India to ensure trade leads to impact on the ground.

Arancha Gonzalez

In my job, as head of the International Trade Centre, I have the privilege to meet entrepreneurs from across the world almost on a daily basis.

Arancha Gonzalez

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.

Arancha Gonzalez

Entrepreneurs - both women and men - need equal and fair access to finance - to create new businesses, to reach to new markets, and to adapt to climate change.

Arancha Gonzalez

Most people - including business leaders - want a healthy future for their children.

Arancha Gonzalez

There are bridges that we have built not only between individual companies but also between associations. This will keep business and investments flowing.

Arancha Gonzalez

Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.

Arancha Gonzalez

Look at a map of the world: the countries which do not trade much, or which trade only in oil and gas, tend to be in regions which suffer the most social and political instability.

Arancha Gonzalez

Governments around the world are looking for economic growth and job creation. African economies are no exception, with increasing recognition that growth has to be built on a more diversified economic structure in order to make a lasting contribution to development.

Arancha Gonzalez

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.

Arancha Gonzalez

Arancha Gonzalez Quotes

When women are paid for their work and have control over how the money gets spent, they invest much more of their income than men do in their families' education and health.

The unfolding migratory crisis has become one of the most acute challenges facing the international community. Millions of lives are at stake. All of us have a responsibility to act. Collectively, we need to find solutions.

The tourism industry has considerable potential to be a sustainability role model in its role as a buyer of goods and other services, from building materials and green construction standards to farm produce.

International consumers can rest assured that their quinoa purchases have benefited some of Latin America's poorest people, together with their families.

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.

It makes perfect economic sense to integrate women in the economy in the developing world in order to catch up with advanced countries, thereby minimising socioeconomic costs as well.

You only have a problem when you admit you have a problem.

Everything we produce and consume has an impact on the environment, on social fabrics, and on the economy. This impact can be positive or negative and, frequently, some combination of the two.

Technology is making it easier for women to connect to business opportunities around the world. Legal obstacles must not be allowed to stand in their way. That's not just because it's economically smart. It's because discrimination shouldn't be the law.

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.

ITC looks forward to working with the chief minister and the government of India to ensure trade leads to impact on the ground.

In my job, as head of the International Trade Centre, I have the privilege to meet entrepreneurs from across the world almost on a daily basis.

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.

Entrepreneurs - both women and men - need equal and fair access to finance - to create new businesses, to reach to new markets, and to adapt to climate change.

Most people - including business leaders - want a healthy future for their children.

There are bridges that we have built not only between individual companies but also between associations. This will keep business and investments flowing.

Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.

Look at a map of the world: the countries which do not trade much, or which trade only in oil and gas, tend to be in regions which suffer the most social and political instability.

Governments around the world are looking for economic growth and job creation. African economies are no exception, with increasing recognition that growth has to be built on a more diversified economic structure in order to make a lasting contribution to development.

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.