Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.
You only have a problem when you admit you have a problem.
Africans don't just need more jobs: they need better jobs.
Inward-looking unilateral trade policies invite retaliation.
Can trade help lift people out of poverty? It can, and it has.
Women are the most underutilized 'resource' in the world economy.
You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.
E-commerce is a powerful means to connect the unconnected to global trade.
Most people - including business leaders - want a healthy future for their children.
African pressure has led the E.U. to rethink part of its agricultural subsidy programme.
Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.
Jobs are the main channel through which people share in - or are left out of - economic growth.
Women are the half of the engine of our societies; they are half of the engines of our economies.
Some of the anti-trade sentiment is the result of rising wealth inequality and stagnating real wages.
Latin Americans are all too familiar with the boom and bust cycles associated with economic populism.
Sometimes all it takes to connect entrepreneurs to overseas buyers is to get them into the same room.
While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries.
Through trade reforms, Latin American countries can boost their competitiveness in markets for goods and services.
China has proven that the wellbeing of citizens in a country doesn't necessarily contradict its engagement globally.
Japan has huge potential in women - potential, especially in the area of the economy, that Japan is not using fully.
ITC looks forward to working with the chief minister and the government of India to ensure trade leads to impact on the ground.
Economic policy that adheres to the tenets of orthodoxy while failing to deliver for large sections of society is doomed to fail.
Improving SME productivity translates into more and better paying jobs, distributed across less fortunate sections of the economy.
Fully implementing the WTO trade facilitation agreement is one ingredient to reduce border delays and costs for traded merchandise.
In a climate where governments are limited in what they can spend, trade and investment offer a path to fiscally responsible growth.
Through e-commerce, women have found a means to jump over cultural and traditional lack of available time for remunerated activities.
Laws matter. With effective implementation and enforcement, good laws can nudge forward positive changes in social and cultural mores.
Large companies everywhere tend to be more productive than small ones. But the gap in productivity is far wider in developing countries.
The lack of livelihood opportunities in refugee camps pushes many people to embark on dangerous journeys in the quest for a better life.
It has been proven through studies by the World Bank and others that companies participating in international trade are more competitive.
The social and legal discrimination that relegates hundreds of women to subordinate or marginal economic roles has a huge aggregate cost.
Consumers need more insight into the goods and services they purchase. Businesses need to produce those goods and services more sustainably.
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.
I think that when voters react negatively to trade and investment, they are really expressing their angst about the pace of technological change.
Growth without diversification, technological improvement, and increased productivity is easily reversed: all it takes is a dip in commodity prices.
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.
Trade and investment are good for innovation - open economies allow new ideas and technologies to diffuse more quickly from wherever they are created.
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.
International consumers can rest assured that their quinoa purchases have benefited some of Latin America's poorest people, together with their families.
There are bridges that we have built not only between individual companies but also between associations. This will keep business and investments flowing.
I have seen African countries negotiate bilaterally and within the WTO. African countries come to the WTO prepared and defend their interests with vigour.
It is no coincidence that in the wake of the Arab Spring, investment in youth-related initiatives, especially related to employment, has increased sharply.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Without action to de-carbonize our economies, unchecked climate change threatens to batter lives and economies around the world, hitting the poorest people hardest.
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.