In an era of global value chains, worldwide sourcing and the never-ending search for new markets, we must be careful to avoid the proliferation of regional standards. A multilateral approach holds wider benefits for more actors. — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
I think educational systems have to be more nimble, have to be more adapted to today's realities where students can go in different directions and professionalize even faster. Constant retraining and reskilling and upskilling, whatever you want to call it,… — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
My job is to prioritize multi-lateralism, and that of course interests Brazil, which is a global player. I'm representing 159 members, and one of… — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
Each blockage is a blockage. Each impasse is an impasse. You have to find a solution; there is no recipe that fits each one… — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
At the WTO, it's never a general surgery. It's always a very specific, clinical, precise surgery - and you can't miss the target. If… — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
Just having the economy picking up doesn't mean that we will get through or that we will turn the chapter on many of the… — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
In an era of global value chains, worldwide sourcing and the never-ending search for new markets, we must be careful to avoid the proliferation… — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
One thinks that one is winning when we slap tariffs or introduce barriers to imports from another country, and we think we win. But… — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
The best thing we can do to secure the future of the global system, trading system, is to redouble the efforts to improve the… — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well. — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
I think what helps me is that delegations of all sizes - the small, the medium, the large, the largest - they all have… — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable. — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
Making strong infrastructural reforms, particularly in the area of social security, that's not an appealing prospect for any country or for any political structure.… — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
In most negotiations, you can't attribute success or failure in negotiations to one side. — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
