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5 Jan 2016
Sustainable trade and development matters to everyone, everywhere, writes ITC Executive Director Arancha González
Trade Forum
The in-depth digital knowledge platform of the International Trade Centre explores export development and trade issues in developing and least developed countries. The contributions focus on trade promotion and export development as part of the International Trade Centre’s technical cooperation programme with developing countries and economies in transition.
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8 Dec 2015
Bangladesh has made great strides to improve the empowerment of women, writes Shameem Ahsan.
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8 Dec 2015
More must be done to ensure that development policies provide decent working conditions for people producing goods and services, writes Dominik Ziller.
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8 Dec 2015
While voluntary standards have become trendy in recent years, they have worked to foster sustainable development for decades, writes Jarle Hetland.
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6 Jul 2015
Indian demand for leather goods outstrips supply. A solution to the shortage lies just across the ocean: partnering with East African businesses, which have materials to meet the need and a desire to upgrade their countries’ leather sector. This presents an...
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6 Jul 2015
The official beginning of the One ASEAN Community is almost here – we are only a few months away – yet so much still remains to be done to establish true regional integration. In the case of travel in the region, discussions have been held and some actions made, but...
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6 Jul 2015
The importance of infrastructure with regard to regional integration remains doubtless in Africa. Past efforts at regional integration have focused on removing barriers to free trade, increasing the free movement of people, labour, goods and capital across national...
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6 Jul 2015
Recent developments in world trade regulation increasingly exhibit a focus on mega-regional trade agreements and other processes of inter- and intra-regional economic integration. These dynamics span advanced, emerging, less developed countries and everything in...
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3 Jul 2015
Intra-African trade, especially with Nigeria and South Africa, is growing at a robust pace. It increased more than fivefold in 1995-2012 from US$27.9 billion to US$148.9 billion. However, given that intra-African trade remains the lowest in the world – 12% compared to...
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3 Jul 2015
Time matters for trade and its importance is likely to grow because of increasingly segmented production chains across countries and lean retailing, among other reasons.* Especially critical is the effectiveness of public entities that affect the transit times between...