Arancha Gonzalez

E-commerce is a powerful means to connect the unconnected to global trade.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Can trade help lift people out of poverty? It can, and it has.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Most people - including business leaders - want a healthy future for their children.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Women are the half of the engine of our societies; they are half of the engines of our economies.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Jobs are the main channel through which people share in - or are left out of - economic growth.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Women are the most underutilized 'resource' in the world economy.

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You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.

— Arancha Gonzalez

African pressure has led the E.U. to rethink part of its agricultural subsidy programme.

— Arancha Gonzalez

In landlocked developing countries, geographical barriers to markets are unnecessarily accompanied by virtual ones: their e-connectivity rates are among the world's lowest.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Companies that operate across borders have the expertise SMEs need. Who better to help smallholder farmers navigate complex sustainability standards than the…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Ever since the first power looms put weavers out of work in the late 18th century, technology has increased productivity but threatened…

— Arancha Gonzalez

In a climate where governments are limited in what they can spend, trade and investment offer a path to fiscally responsible growth.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Creating large numbers of decent jobs for young people is critical for achieving overall development objectives, from poverty reduction to better health…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Our main aim globally is to connect more women to the economy because we know there is a specific market failure there:…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Growth without diversification, technological improvement, and increased productivity is easily reversed: all it takes is a dip in commodity prices.

— Arancha Gonzalez

It has been proven through studies by the World Bank and others that companies participating in international trade are more competitive.

— Arancha Gonzalez

The representatives of young professionals and woman entrepreneurs deserve seats at the big table to evolve viable, efficient, and sustainable solutions for…

— Arancha Gonzalez

We survey companies and ask them what the barriers to export and import are. Once we map these barriers, we sit down…

— Arancha Gonzalez

The big part of coffee production in many rural areas is in the hands of women. It's women who work in the…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Governments can't credibly claim to be concerned about stagnant growth and ageing workforces unless they are actively seeking to empower women economically.…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Responsive governments committed to improving the broader trade facilitation and business environment can help companies of all sizes by improving infrastructure: roads,…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Policy and business elites did not speak frankly about the unequal distribution of benefits from trade and failed to adequately accompany market-opening…

— Arancha Gonzalez

The fact is that during the post-1989 heyday of globalization optimism, political and business elites did not think enough about the prospect…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Sustainable production and consumption matter immensely to the people I meet every day as head of the International Trade Centre, which works…

— Arancha Gonzalez

You only have a problem when you admit you have a problem.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Inward-looking unilateral trade policies invite retaliation.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Africans don't just need more jobs: they need better jobs.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.

— Arancha Gonzalez

For Latin American countries seeking to play a bigger role in global trade, effectively implementing trade-facilitating reforms could be an important tool…

— Arancha Gonzalez

It makes perfect economic sense to integrate women in the economy in the developing world in order to catch up with advanced…

— Arancha Gonzalez

It is no coincidence that in the wake of the Arab Spring, investment in youth-related initiatives, especially related to employment, has increased…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Everything we produce and consume has an impact on the environment, on social fabrics, and on the economy. This impact can be…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Improving SME productivity translates into more and better paying jobs, distributed across less fortunate sections of the economy.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Fully implementing the WTO trade facilitation agreement is one ingredient to reduce border delays and costs for traded merchandise.

— Arancha Gonzalez

ITC works to help firms in poor countries become more competitive and overcome the barriers that are keeping their goods and services…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Without action to de-carbonize our economies, unchecked climate change threatens to batter lives and economies around the world, hitting the poorest people…

— Arancha Gonzalez

A.P., like the rest of India, has huge potential to move up the value chain by investing in small and medium enterprises…

— Arancha Gonzalez

If governments start to go it alone on trade, it will become harder, not easier, to generate the jobs and rising incomes…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Look at a map of the world: the countries which do not trade much, or which trade only in oil and gas,…

— Arancha Gonzalez