Top 93 Quotes & Sayings by Arancha Gonzalez - Page 2

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

Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.

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.

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

Governments everywhere have ministries dedicated to women's affairs. I know of only one with a Ministry for Women Empowerment: Indonesia. Charged with the 'realization of gender equality and justice' together with children's well-being, the ministry frames gender equality as a matter of justice.

We often run the risk, when discussing women empowerment, to think that this is about women talking about women with other women, but this is not the point.

Exporting firms are more productive and pay higher wages than their domestically focused counterparts, especially in places like Sub-Saharan Africa. If firms manage to thrive in world markets, they tend to increase their productivity even more.

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.

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

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.

The 'SheTrades' programme aims to connect one million women entrepreneurs to markets by 2020 with a campaign, a focussed networking app, and a range of international and national information resources.

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

I have seen African countries negotiate bilaterally and within the WTO. African countries come to the WTO prepared and defend their interests with vigour.

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.

Responsive governments committed to improving the broader trade facilitation and business environment can help companies of all sizes by improving infrastructure: roads, transportation, ports, information and communication technology, and electricity.

Trade and investment promotion organizations are crucial partners in ITC's work to enable SMEs to internationalize. They sustain and multiply the impact of trade-related technical support and allow SMEs to function with confidence in any location.

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

Through the SITA initiative, we are building bridges between India and East Africa by taking Indian companies to these countries to see with their own eyes what the opportunities are.

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

The deeper your regional integration, the more value chain activity you generate, but the more you close the gap between your small and your large companies.

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

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.

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

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

Japan has huge potential in women - potential, especially in the area of the economy, that Japan is not using fully.

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

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.

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.

Our main aim globally is to connect more women to the economy because we know there is a specific market failure there: women are having more difficulty in business than men.

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

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.

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

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