No. 4, October 2020

Index

• Talking up trade.
• Turning headwinds for trade into tailwinds.
• Unity for the benefit of all.
• An innovative approach to export financing.
• Services: from policy to practice.
• What people don't know about trade and why they need to know.
• Services are essential to the Doha agenda: WTO head Pascal Lamy urges developing countries to invest in service talks.
• Guide to increasing women in public procurement launched.
• ILO figures show 164 million people are migrant workers.
• ITC and GroFin launch SheTrades Invest for women entrepreneurs.
• Mauritius first for online shopping readiness in Africa.
• Myanmar tourism project wins award.
• New support for Zimbabwe farmers.
• New tool monitors trade-related SDGs.
• Trade intelligence platform now in Arabic.
• IE University and the International Trade Centre announce Executive Master in Internationalization and Trade.
• ITC, CCPIT launch National Centre for Enterprise Management Development for Chinese MSMEs.
• Public climate finance to developing countries is rising.
• Weak recovery in youth labour markets remains a problem.
• Has public support for free trade reached its peak? A recent survey in the United States and Europe indicates the challenge facing communicators in turning support for trade into further lowering of trade barriers.
• Making it in The Gambia: Following the return to democracy, an increasing number of young Gambians are returning home determined to make a difference.
• Myanmar: rebuilding communities through trade.
• What is...
• Exporting by design in Malaysia: the Malaysian design firm Veritas went into business with an international outlook. In this challenging service sector, it learned how to ride out the storms as well as take advantage of international opportunities.
• Choosing the right partner: what makes a good service partner? Trust and experience, says this major Dubai developer.
• Ensuring sustainable and inclusive growth in Africa through trade: The African Continental Free Trade Area agreement charts a new way for development and will help achieve greater integration.
• From the Guatemalan highlands to the world.
• Reporting on trade a Kenyan view: the media has a duty to inform the public about trade matters that affect their lives. But with limited resources and too little interaction with trade bodies, Southern journalists have a hard time.
• Addressing NTMs to facilitate trade through coordinated policy interventions: Studying and analysing trade barriers may be the best way to vanquish them.
• Strengthening trade coverage in the media: how can trade experts and journalists work together to make sense of global change?
• Imports play a key role in U.K. toy sales.
• In pictures advocacy for trade: an Oxfam campaign used celebrities to raise awareness about dumping goods in world markets.
• The future of multilateralism.
• Winners and losers in Africa's Continental Free Trade area: AfCFTA accord has potential to both enhance and disrupt regional economies.
• Developing your message: invest in developing your message--what drives you and makes you stand out.
• Sustainable development and trade: The importance of multilateralism.
• Tear down this wall: non-tariff measures and regional integration: Greater transparency and elimination of barriers hold the promise of deepening economic integration among countries and fostering greater trade, jobs and income growth.
• Women and trade: what are international organizations doing?
• Trade Forum collection on advocacy for trade.
• Advocacy for "Aid for Trade": Aid for Trade has become an important element of the World Trade Organization's work in the past year, a job that requires it to take on an advocacy and coordination role.
• Latin America: crisis of regionalism vs advancement of economic integration: Recent trade discord highlights the need for creation of a free-trade area.
• Meeting current challenges: The job at hand for the WTO.
• Aid for Trade a wider scope: interview with Ambassador Mia Horn at Rantzien, chair, WTO Aid for Trade Task Force.
• Small businesses key to economic growth in Africa.
• The ASEAN experience in using trade deals to slash trade costs: What prospects for greater trade cooperation among Southeast Asian countries?
• Aid for Trade: we can do better: turning aid recipients into consumers, and enabling them to take charge of the process, will help to make aid for trade more effective.
• Assessing requirements for developing your training capacity.
• Brexit: trading uncertainties for third countries: What Brexit means for trade relations between third countries, the UK and the EU.
• Build your own brand.
• Can multilateralism evolve?
• Getting the framework right: country ownership, a stronger voice for business and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and stronger institutional backing are essential lessons from a valuable process to coordinate trade assistance in the world's poorest countries.
• Reaching out to garment manufacturers.
• Dynamic markets for fruit juices in Asia.
• International garments sector reacts to forum article.
• LDCs benefit from exchange of experiences at Executive Forum.
• Making headway.
• Put your stamp on trade.
• Regional trade agreements: challenges and opportunities; Proliferation of trade accords has potential to increase trade-and make trade relations more complex.
• At a glance: ITC's role in Aid for Trade.
• Agriculture trade: regional solutions for global challenges: Why achieving food security would be easier with a local approach.
• Clean energy: Game-changer for Nigeria?
• ITC moves forward: the views of ITC clients and donors are helping the new management team to shape the ITC of tomorrow, in a changing environment for trade development.
• RSS: a new way to keep in touch.
• Enters the classroom: Peru's young business hopefuls are getting a taste of the international market while still at university through the case studies and ideas in ITC's magazine.
• Regional integration through joint trade facilitation reforms: Boosting regional trade with coordinated and harmonized implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement.
• The First Flush.
• African cotton exports.
• Fruitful cooperation with Shaanxi Province.
• ITC-China partnership evolves: China is expanding its cooperation with ITC and with developing countries.
• Trade law: balancing priorities.
• Asia Trust Fund is on track: this fast-track facility for trade assistance in Asia is responding well to new Asian needs.
• Making sense of trade treaties: as world trade grows more complex, the rules for international business are also growing in number and intricacy. How can countries with limited resources spot and adopt the major trade treaties? And how can they participate in drafting new trade rules?
• The Ghanaian championing science for change in Africa: Learn what drives the 26-year-old serial inventor and multi-global pitch winner to make practical science a reality for students across Africa and beyond.
• Trade institutions meet on management training for exporters.
• African services associations meet: service sector associations representing thousands of firms from 13 African countries met with South African construction, transportation and financial services firms at a "Bridges Across Borders" event in Centurion, South Africa, in November 2006.
• Saving the day: Quality Champions in Kenya.
• Building trust, recognizing excellence in trade promotion: Experts explore the changing role of trade and investment promotion organizations at a global conference in Paris, France, and institutions from Ghana, Nigeria and Qatar win big.
• Building up commercial dispute resolution in Africa: commercial arbitration and alternative dispute resolution are gaining ground in African countries, helping to improve the investment and business climate.
• ITC at the World Summit on the Information Society: report of J. Denis Belisle, ITC's Executive Director, at the Multistakeholder Plenary Session of the World Summit on the Information Society, held in Geneva in December 2003.
• NEW ITC PUBLICATIONS: Resources on trade and export development for exporters, trade support institutions and policymakers.
• Coffee experts offer online Q&A service.
• Utz Kapeh and ITC to develop African premium coffee.
• Agenda.
• Expanding tourism in Myanmar's Kayah State and Ta.nintharyi region: ITC to step up support to tourism operators of two Myanmar's rural regions.
• Trade Forum online your comments: readers comment on Trade Forum articles online.
• In Nepal, ten countries review E-business potential: what can countries do to ensure that they are ready to help small firms participate in e-business?
• JAMPRO wins a TPO award.
• New executive director of ITC is appointed.
• Buenos Aires welcomes rescheduled World TPO Conference.
• Helping service firms to manage quality: a new guide helps smalls service firms meet international standards in quality management, in order to boost their competitiveness.
• ITC PUBLICATIONS: Resources on trade and export development for exporters, trade support institutions and policymakers.
• Agenda: from 10 January 2019.
• Connecting one million women entrepreneurs to market by 2020.
• ISO 9001:2000--A workbook for service organizations.