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“Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.”
“Connecting small and medium-sized businesses to international markets can create work for host country nationals alongside refugees, building economic growth and resilience in host communities.”
“The lack of livelihood opportunities in refugee camps pushes many people to embark on dangerous journeys in the quest for a better life.”
“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.”
“In landlocked developing countries, geographical barriers to markets are unnecessarily accompanied by virtual ones: their e-connectivity rates are among the world's lowest.”
“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.”
“Sustainable production and consumption matter immensely to the people I meet every day as head of the International Trade Centre, which works with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help them boost growth and job creation by improving their competitiveness and connecting to international markets.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Some of the anti-trade sentiment is the result of rising wealth inequality and stagnating real wages.”
“Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.”
“Latin Americans are all too familiar with the boom and bust cycles associated with economic populism.”
“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.”
“Women are the most underutilized 'resource' in the world economy.”
“Through e-commerce, women have found a means to jump over cultural and traditional lack of available time for remunerated activities.”
“Policy and business elites did not speak frankly about the unequal distribution of benefits from trade and failed to adequately accompany market-opening with good domestic policies to equip displaced workers to upskill, adjust, and share in the new opportunities being created.”
“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.”
“The social and legal discrimination that relegates hundreds of women to subordinate or marginal economic roles has a huge aggregate cost.”
“I have seen African countries negotiate bilaterally and within the WTO. African countries come to the WTO prepared and defend their interests with vigour.”
“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.”