International Trade and Finance
Making Aid for Trade work for women
Let us go back 12 years to when the Aid for Trade Task Force was created. Gender was written into the initiative’s guiding principles: ‘Aid for trade should be rendered taking full account of the gender perspective. Donors and partner countries jointly commit to the harmonization of efforts on issues such as gender.’
Our sustainable holidays
According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization more than 1.2 billion people travelled in 2015. A number that keeps growing. Whereas only a few decades ago international tourism was largely reserved for the rich travel has become ‘cheap’ and anyone can today board a plane to visit the Eiffel Tower in Paris take a selfie on the Great Wall in Beijing or eat Baklava in Istanbul’s Bazaar.
Urban logistics in Guinea
I will be forced to close some of the sales points and cut wages to keep my workers. Increasing costs for raw materials and the need to maintain my business prices have left me with no choice’ says Mamoudou Barry.
Uganda: Vocational skills contribute to refugee integration
The cycles of conflict in South Sudan in December 2013 and July 2016 resulted into a large influx of refugees into Uganda. More than 317000 South Sudanese refugees sought refuge in the Adjumani district in the north of Uganda.
Making trade work for the 99%
Recent years have seen trade facing headwinds. Scratch beneath the surface of many of the recent headlines and political debates and you will find trade being blamed for a number of challenges facing countries across the world.
Let’s unleash the potential of youth in global trade
There are 1.3 billion youth in the world today and 1 billion of them live in the developing world. Worryingly more than half of young people in developing countries are unemployed. With growing global economic unrest providing jobs and training for youth is one of the major challenges of our times.
World Export Development Forum 2020
Sustainable tourism is at the centre of the 20th edition of the International Trade Centre’s annual flagship event the World Export Development Forum. This year’s host the Government of Mongolia welcomes you to Ulaanbaatar at the end of August. We will bring together the major actors in the field of sustainable tourism to discuss the way forward and measures for recovery in the context of the COVID-19 economic crisis.
Towards a more integrated Aid for Trade approach
International trade and investment are drivers of development fostering economic opportunity efficiency and growth. They encourage the use of international norms and connect local economies to regional and global value chains. Indeed the statistics bear this out: the World Trade Organization (WTO) estimates trade has helped lift one billion people out of poverty since 1990.
Bridging differences
When you think of Myanmar you might picture rich fauna tropical forests sparkling beaches and a dramatic silhouette of temples and pagodas against a mountainous backdrop. It is undeniable that Myanmar with its beautifully diverse landscape and rich cultural history has a lot to offer. And tourism is set to pave the way for economic development in this often less-travelled Asian land in the years ahead.
Farm sustainably, build peace
Edgar Montenegro is worried about the farmers he works with in the remote region of Putumayo: getting to this part of Colombia which borders Peru and Ecuador and is 500 km from Bogotá is already a hike on normal days. Now with COVID-19 and the country’s lockdown over the past few months the region is barely accessible. Villagers are putting up barricades because they are scared. With no hospitals around they do not wish to risk infection.
World Export Development Forum creates contacts, partnerships through its matchmaking service
In November 2019 the International Trade Centre (ITC) held its flagship annual event the World Export Development Forum (WEDF) at African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Neither the time nor the place was an accident.
Matching growth opportunities with sustainability
The water around and below us the air above us the communities around us the people who work for us: all are critical factors when it comes to planning a sustainable growth strategy for the cruise industry based on leadership stewardship and partnership.
Three ways to get small businesses to employ opportunity youth
Small business growth is the secret to solving youth unemployment in Africa. Small and growing businesses (SGBs) create around 80% of employment on the continent. If business owners can grow their companies they can hire more people who in turn gain valuable experience they could use to start their own companies one day.
Empowering Africa’s young people in the digital economy
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is an ambitious endeavour that should transform all of the economies on the continent. It will open new frontiers in opportunities and position Africa as a force to be reckoned with in the global economy.
Agenda from 19 May 2017
Small businesses key to economic growth in Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an adverse economic impact on Africa with sub-Saharan Africa experiencing its first recession in 25 years. The continent’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to decline from about 3% in 2019 to -2% to -5% in 2020 with the region’s major sources of revenue declining. To give a few concrete examples commodity exports and remittances declined by 17% and over 23% respectively and the tourism sector has lost up to $120 billion in revenue.
Africa’s potential ‘born digital’ trade agreement
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement presently signed by 52 African Union (AU) member states is remarkable in its geographic coverage and ambition to create a single market for the continent. The agreement’s extensive protocols will cover trade in goods trade in services investment competition and intellectual property rights.