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A.P., like the rest of India, has huge potential to move up the value chain by investing in small and medium enterprises to create more value addition and better paid jobs.

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

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Through e-commerce, women have found a means to jump over cultural and traditional lack of available time for remunerated activities.

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The fact is that during the post-1989 heyday of globalization optimism, political and business elites did not think enough about the prospect - plainly predicted in economic theory - that trade would harm some people even while leaving society as a whole better off. The result was overpromised benefits and inadequate adjustment plans.

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Laws matter. With effective implementation and enforcement, good laws can nudge forward positive changes in social and cultural mores.

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

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The lack of livelihood opportunities in refugee camps pushes many people to embark on dangerous journeys in the quest for a better life.

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When the International Trade Centre, the agency I head, works with German electronics giant Bosch to help Kenyan food processing companies boost their productivity and export competitiveness, we may well be creating future customers for Bosch washing machines.

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A.P., like the rest of India, has huge potential to move up the value chain by investing in small and medium enterprises to create more value addition and better paid jobs.

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The tourism industry has considerable potential to be a sustainability role model in its role as a buyer of goods and other services, from building materials and green construction standards to farm produce.

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

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In the ten years leading up to 2013, quinoa prices nearly tripled on the back of skyrocketing international demand for the latest 'superfood'. The grain had traditionally been cultivated in the high Andean plateau, principally for household consumption. But as prices rose, farmers' incentive to sell it as a cash crop grew.

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ITC looks forward to working with the chief minister and the government of India to ensure trade leads to impact on the ground.

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In their pursuit of growth and diversification, African economies should consider transforming the discourse from a focus on industrialisation to a broader one centred on value addition in agriculture, manufacturing, and services.

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The social and legal discrimination that relegates hundreds of women to subordinate or marginal economic roles has a huge aggregate cost.

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

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Gender-based job restrictions tend to be associated with wider wage gaps and lower employment rates for women. And where girls' future earning potential is limited, families may choose to send their brothers to school instead.

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

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The big part of coffee production in many rural areas is in the hands of women. It's women who work in the fields. They harvest the coffee. They wash the coffee. They take the coffee to the market. But when the coffee gets to the market, it's the man who cashes in the money for the crop.

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I have been talking to trade ministers in various countries who all say that gender inclusivity is important to them. We need to make this importance visible to the rest of the world and catalyse action towards more inclusive trade.

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International consumers can rest assured that their quinoa purchases have benefited some of Latin America's poorest people, together with their families.

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

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It makes perfect economic sense to integrate women in the economy in the developing world in order to catch up with advanced countries, thereby minimising socioeconomic costs as well.

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Economic desperation often drives wildlife destruction like poaching or illegal logging. But trade can help create powerful financial incentives for communities to preserve the biodiversity around them.

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

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Around the world, it is much more difficult for women than for men to run a successful business. Even when laws are not explicitly biased against them, companies owned and operated by women often face discrimination every step of the way, from obtaining finance to finding customers.

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The most difficult part of Brexit will be to figure out the trade regime between the U.K. and the rest of the E.U. because the level of trade integration between the members of the E.U. is the deepest in the world and integrates regulations that govern how products and services are produced and sold within the E.U.

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Technology is making it easier for women to connect to business opportunities around the world. Legal obstacles must not be allowed to stand in their way. That's not just because it's economically smart. It's because discrimination shouldn't be the law.

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There is no intrinsic reason African countries should be importing, rather than exporting, basic staples like rice or higher value products like frozen chicken, cooking oil, or instant noodles.

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There are bridges that we have built not only between individual companies but also between associations. This will keep business and investments flowing.

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Full social and political engagement is impossible without economic empowerment, a point that is as true for women as it is for young people of either gender.

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Some of the anti-trade sentiment is the result of rising wealth inequality and stagnating real wages.

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Sustainable production and consumption matter immensely to the people I meet every day as head of the International Trade Centre, which works with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help them boost growth and job creation by improving their competitiveness and connecting to international markets.

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The factory work that lifted millions out of poverty in places like China and Vietnam probably did cost some workers in North Carolina and Wallonia their jobs.

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When women are paid for their work and have control over how the money gets spent, they invest much more of their income than men do in their families' education and health.

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

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Look at a map of the world: the countries which do not trade much, or which trade only in oil and gas, tend to be in regions which suffer the most social and political instability.

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