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Just 100,000 people live within the Republic of Kiribati’s 3.5 million square kilometre territory in the South Pacific. Kiribati is one of the most remote countries in the world, thousands of kilometres from major ports such as Shanghai, Sydney and Tokyo. Distance, therefore, is a formidable...
The private sector is a key partner in fostering economic development through investments in new businesses, creating jobs and providing an innovative range of goods and services. All these activities have potential benefits for the least developed and developing economies. The 2011 joint...
The Third Global Review of Aid for Trade was a successful exploration and examination of the successes and challenges of the six-year Aid for Trade initiative. Initiated to aid developing countries in expanding their supply-side and productive capacity and allow them to take better advantage of...
Enhancing companies’ ability to trade is a key element of national development agendas. In recent years, Aid for Trade has become the main vehicle for such investment in developing economies. Aid for Trade provides a platform for governments to achieve some development policy aspirations...
Increasingly, as European manufacturers face fierce competition from new Asian sources, suppliers are looked to as sources of competitive advantage. This article discusses the strategic role that differentiated purchasing and supply management represents in support of companies’ overall...
In an increasingly connected world, creative uses of technology provide new opportunities to enable two-way information flows between governments and citizens. Through its ICT Knowledge Platform on Innovations for Accountability and Service Delivery Initiative, the World Bank is playing a central...
Since 2005 Colombian companies have been relieved of the time-consuming need to visit the numerous government offices involved in the international trade process by the establishment of the Single Window for Foreign Trade – SWFT. To facilitate trade, this system enables public entities involved in...
The future of global trade is on the Internet and Trade Promotion Organizations (TPOs) have a critical role to play in securing a significant share of this value for their constituent exporters. According to the International Data Corporation, worldwide e-commerce, including both retail (‘business...
The role of innovation and the use of information and communications technology (ICT) to further the Aid for Trade agenda was one of the key themes explored at the World Export Development Forum (WEDF), held in Chongqing, China in September 2010. Looking to the future of world trade after the...
The 2010 TPO Network Awards recognized excellence in export development initiatives by trade promotion and support organizations to boost export performance. Sponsored by the International Trade Centre (ITC), the biennial TPO Network Awards aim to support small and medium-sized enterprises...
NEW ITC TECHNICAL PAPERS Business Generation: Methodology Aimed at trade promotion officers and advisers of trade support institutions, this publication provides guidelines on how to organize buyers/sellers meetings. Through a methodology developed by ITC, it explains...
Trade in agricultural commodities has always been particularly sensitive. With decreasing tariffs, non-tariff measures (NTMs) have moved into focus. Applied by the importing or exporting country, NTMs entail various challenges and additional costs for exporters in developing countries, and may be...
