International Trade Forum - AZ
- Revamping trade and investment promotion organizations in business ecosystem 4.0: New technologies and tools are providing companies have new ways of doing business - and new challenges.
- Using European funds to leverage private finance for sustainable development: How is the EU enabling small businesses in Africa and the European neighbourhood to flourish, and societies to reap the benefits?
- News Brief.
- Responding to urgent humanitarian and development needs.
- The future's bright, young and African: Gathige Wa Maina of Youth Motion Kenya explains why the voice of youth must be heard in an inclusive African Continental Free Trade Area.
- African growth: A new model for a post-COVID-19 world: More than ever, the creation of a single continental market remains a game changer.
- Clean energy: Game-changer for Nigeria?
- How trade concessions can improve refugee self-reliance.
- The heart of the matter: Gender equality lies 'at the heart' of processes establishing the new open trade era in Africa, said one of its architects.
- The First Flush.
- Sustainably produced commodities are growing on consumers: Meeting voluntary standards helps producers reach new markets while conserving environmental assets.
- Reaping the benefits of Kenya's green gold: Ensuring quality certification has led to a boom in Kenya's avocado industry, creating jobs and raising incomes.
- The current work plan of the WTO Informal Working Group on MSMEs: Recognizing trade financing as a decisive factor in achieving economic growth and Sustainable Development Goals.
- Tourism and the Sustainable Development Agenda: Seizing opportunity in crisis.
- Biodiversity conservation is necessary as well as profitable: Protecting the natural order can not only provide social and environmental benefits but also can lead to economic gains.
- Bridging the MSME financing gap for sustainable development: Three strategic approaches to support micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
- Five million stars: International Trade Forum collected the views of His Excellency Khaltmaagiin Battulga, the President of Mongolia, on sustainable tourism opportunities in his country.
- Why blockchain could become the new container of international trade: Digital record-keeping offers potential of lower costs, less cumbersome procedures.
- How technology is helping the transport sector become more sustainable: Technology is making border crossings faster, more secure and more efficient, reducing transport costs and boosting trade.
- Our employees make it possible.
- Creating the right business environment for SMEs: Bringing SMEs and the banking system closer to each other by fine-tuning rules and approaches.
- Writing Tanzania's success story: Sustainable development through trade under One UN in Tanzania.
- Taking a closer took: the impact of tech on trade: Applied effectively, blockchain and artificial intelligence are among tools that can benefit buyers and sellers alike.
- Growth for Rural Advancement and Sustainable Progress: ITC launches a project to reduce poverty in Pakistan by strengthening small-scale agribusinesses.
- Efficient harvests, effective transport can eliminate hunger: How public-private partnerships to improve port infrastructure can positively impact the Global Goal.
- Trade facilitation at work in Hong Kong: beyond geography: how economic policy has turned Hong Kong, China into an international logistics hub.
- Smart policies help Hungary's MSMEs benefit from the fourth industrial revolution: Digital transformation programmes provides opportunity to improve economic output while increasing connectivity.
- A cup of tea from Sri Lanka: Trade capacity building and technical assistance focused on training, skills development improves SME export competitiveness in Sri Lanka.
- Africa's potential 'born digital' trade agreement: The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement has the potential to be innovative in its conception as a 21st century arrangement and become the world's first 'born digital' trade agreement.
- NEW ITC PUBLICATIONS: Resources on trade and export development for exporters, trade support institutions and policymakers.
- Guinea: Boosting youth initiatives and entrepreneurship: ITC programme seeks to create jobs and economic growth by encouraging, educating prospective business owners.
- Trade and Invest in One Africa: The World Export Development Forum will 'talk business and do business' as part of Africa Industrialization Week from 18-22 November 2019.
- Tourism, the SDGs and ITC: A growing tourism industry can contribute to sustainable development goals and ITC aims to make it happen.
- Off the beaten track in Myanmar: In Myanmar's Kayah state, the International Trade Centre is helping to strengthen a nascent tourism sector.
- Agriculture trade: regional solutions for global challenges: Why achieving food security would be easier with a local approach.
- Regional integration through joint trade facilitation reforms: Boosting regional trade with coordinated and harmonized implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement.
- 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.
- Addressing NTMs to facilitate trade through coordinated policy interventions: Studying and analysing trade barriers may be the best way to vanquish them.
- Continental agreement, country implementation: Making the AfCFTA a reality: As the AfCFTA moves into its operational phase, it is time to consider the crucial next steps.
- 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.
- The importance of services for the African Continental Free Trade Area: An academic perspective: Businesses that are responsive to regulation, low skill-intensive and can show stable income stand to reap significant trade gains.
- From the Guatemalan highlands to the world.
- Latin America: crisis of regionalism vs advancement of economic integration: Recent trade discord highlights the need for creation of a free-trade area.
- Financing and promoting African investments: Creating partnerships, improving governance and mitigating risk can help make the continent more attractive to business interests.
- The future of multilateralism.
- The ASEAN experience in using trade deals to slash trade costs: What prospects for greater trade cooperation among Southeast Asian countries?
- Africa and infrastructure: Charting the way forward: Historic trade agreement must be supported by increased investment to allow full realization of its goals.
- Brexit: trading uncertainties for third countries: What Brexit means for trade relations between third countries, the UK and the EU.
- Private sector has key role to play in realizing AfCFTA's promise: Trade agreement creates opportunity for investment, involvement on a continental basis.
- How migrant networks boost trade: Evidence from the Vietnamese boat people suggests that massive immigration by those escaping conflict leads to increased economic activity.
- Africa's quest for a bigger role in global markets: Currently languishing in world rankings, the continent's economies stand to make a dramatic step forward as AfCFTA comes into force.
- Small businesses key to economic growth in Africa.
- The unfolding story of Barbados's blue economy: The Caribbean island state is determined to create jobs and boost growth while protecting life under water.
- A viable reality: Including refugees economically: International Trade Forum had the opportunity to talk with Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to discuss the economic opportunities for refugees and host communities and the impact that the COVED-19 crisis has had on them.
- Can multilateralism evolve?
- How sustainability standards contribute to SDG 12: Business as usual is not an option anymore, neither in the medium or long-term, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
- Real capital and digital footing for the forcibly displaced: Giving refugees the financial and digital means to access work.
- AfCFTA for more prosperity: Africa's new open trade area has the potential to generate jobs, growth in the services market.
- Pause, Reflect, Restart How one Ghanaian Company is staying afloat in a crisis: As businesses around the world navigate the economic effects of a global pandemic, KAEME is determined to remain resilient in pursuing its mission.
- Making headway.
- Ghent's fair trade programme earns recognition, sets standard: Why making equitable commerce viable is a policy choice for the winner of the first EU Cities for Fair and Ethical Trade Award.
- Reducing risks, increasing returns: Working toward a safe and sustainable future, and providing sustenance for a growing population.
- Geneva could become the international centre of sustainable finance: The Swiss city is making great strides in becoming a hub for sustainable finance.
- Bridging differences: How inclusive, responsible tourism can unite communities in Myanmar.
- Bridging the digital divide.
- Why protectionism spells trouble for global economic growth: For hundreds of years, competitive markets have been seen as most likely to maximize economic output.
- Making community-based tourism shine where it matters.
- Anticipating the humanitarian crisis with innovative financial means: Impact investing as a response to long-term displacement.
- Saving our small businesses.
- Saving the day: Quality Champions in Kenya.
- Small and medium-sized enterprises: engines of the digital revolution: Creating jobs and driving technological development are keys to growth.
- Incubating the future of business in Iraq: Displaced entrepreneurs rebuild their lives thanks to tailored access opportunities.
- The environment lies at the heart of GRASP: Examining the challenges facing Pakistan's livestock and horticulture sectors.
- Chambers: The first recourse for small businesses: At the heart of their ecosystem, chambers are ideal business supporters in a world of crisis.
- NEW ITC PUBLICATIONS: Resources on trade and export development for exporters, trade support institutions and policymakers.
- Go big or go home: getting small business to think large: Using technology to create a global presence means more customers, revenue.
- Entrepreneurs on the move: Mohamed Abdullahi arrived in the Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa County, Kenya in late 2010. Having always wanted to return to his hometown of Mogadishu in Somalia, he was able to do so in late 2019 to start pursuing various business interests. He told the International Trade Forum about his experience as an entrepreneur.
- Zambia's trade ambitions abuzz - with honey: From improved quality to better sales connections to streamlined processing, a range of efforts means more income.
- Bringing global finance to small businesses: Facilitating SMEs in West Africa through impact investment funds.
- Bringing online jobs to Gaza's youth.
- Kenyan avocado exporter becomes part of the processing: Direne Ltd. lands new customers, looks to add more as it builds facility and ITC helps it gain certifications.
- Farm sustainably, build peace: Sustainable farming in remote, conflict-ridden Putumayo in Colombia can save lives and fight violence--now more than ever.
- Angel investing is on the rise in Africa: Turning big dreams into reality through entrepreneurial finance.
- Leading a rethink of tourism: Mainstreaming sustainable travel means working together globally on all levels.
- Simple measures, better lives: Building a new market provides economic opportunities for women and youth in the host community of Kigoma, Tanzania.
- Africa's green opportunity: How African cities can harness green technologies for growth and jobs.
- The Rules of Origin Facilitator: a new tool for increasing trade: A joint initiative by the ITC and the WCO helps micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) benefit from international trade opportunities.
- Maasai eco-lodge creates win-win for humans and animals alike: For the past 23 years, Kenya's II Ngwesi II Group Ranch has been a model of community-based tourism and sustainable wildlife conservation.
- Weaving into fairness: How training in traditional weaving saves lives and, as a plus, the environment.
- Let it flow: the global trade in wine: Though European countries remain the world's top wine exporters, other countries are catching up.
- Cultural restoration as a catalyst for development: Reviving ancient mountain communities offers a model of how to pursue sustainable tourism through the prism of heritage conservation.
- Tahiti limes from Colombia to the world: Frutas Verdes del Patia focuses on organic, setting an example for other farmer organizations in the country's most conflict-ridden region.
- Turning the tide: Textile and clothing companies in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan adopt a forward-looking approach to beat the repercussions of COVID-19.
- Isatou Jobe's secret ingredient for success: A restauranteur's success shows young people can 'tekki fii'--or 'make it here'--in the Gambia.
- With flying comes great responsibility: The economic and social benefits of aviation are clear, but these come with a climate cost that the sector is stepping up to address.
- NEW ITC PUBLICATIONS: Resources on trade and export development for exporters, trade support institutions and policymakers For free download please visit www.intracen.org/publications.
- Onwards and upwards.
- Turning headwinds for trade into tailwinds.
- Taking farmers back to school: Come with us to Tanzania and see how cinnamon growers are benefitting from an engaging training programme.
- Improving Afghan food safety to boost exports: Technology, teaching, training initiatives help producers increase yields, profits.