Quotes from Arancha Gonzalez

Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.

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

If governments start to go it alone on trade, it will become harder, not easier, to generate the jobs and rising incomes that angry electorates want.

While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries.

E-commerce is a powerful means to connect the unconnected to global trade.

We survey companies and ask them what the barriers to export and import are. Once we map these barriers, we sit down with the companies on one side and the government and regulatory agencies on the other and help them identify obstacles to trade and what has to be done to tackle them.

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

Connecting small and medium-sized businesses to international markets can create work for host country nationals alongside refugees, building economic growth and resilience in host communities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In a climate where governments are limited in what they can spend, trade and investment offer a path to fiscally responsible growth.

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

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

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

Entrepreneurship is one of the most important drivers for job creation. Moreover, social entrepreneurship offers not only a path for young people to transform their own lives, but also a way to empower others.

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

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

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.

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

In my experience, what is often missing between intent and action is the knowledge and the means to actually change the way we do business or make consumer decisions.

The unfolding migratory crisis has become one of the most acute challenges facing the international community. Millions of lives are at stake. All of us have a responsibility to act. Collectively, we need to find solutions.