Arancha Gonzalez Quotes

Arancha Gonzalez

Profession : Economist

Birth : May 22, 1969

For Latin American countries seeking to play a bigger role in global trade, effectively implementing trade-facilitating reforms could be an important tool in their toolkits.

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Trade and investment are good for innovation - open economies allow new ideas and technologies to diffuse more quickly from wherever they are created.

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Inward-looking unilateral trade policies invite retaliation.

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Governments can't credibly claim to be concerned about stagnant growth and ageing workforces unless they are actively seeking to empower women economically. One way they can speed up progress towards gender-equal economic opportunity is to change laws that are holding women back.

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Can trade help lift people out of poverty? It can, and it has.

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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.

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What exactly is trade facilitation? In a nutshell, it is an effort to enable global trade by reducing red tape and streamline customs. In even simpler words: making it easier for companies to trade across borders.

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Exporting firms are more productive and pay higher wages than their domestically focused counterparts, especially in places like Sub-Saharan Africa. If firms manage to thrive in world markets, they tend to increase their productivity even more.

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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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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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Around the world, it is much more difficult for women than for men to run a successful business. Even when laws are not explicitly biased against them, companies owned and operated by women often face discrimination every step of the way, from obtaining finance to finding customers.

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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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