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Arancha Gonzalez
Spanish
Economist
Born:
May 22
,
1969
Business
Companies
Countries
People
Women
World
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While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries.
Arancha Gonzalez
Poverty
Driver
Tourism
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Major
Reduction
Often
While
Improving SME productivity translates into more and better paying jobs, distributed across less fortunate sections of the economy.
Arancha Gonzalez
Better
Sections
Jobs
Distributed
More
Economy
Improving
Across
Fortunate
Paying
Productivity
Less
Economic policy that adheres to the tenets of orthodoxy while failing to deliver for large sections of society is doomed to fail.
Arancha Gonzalez
Society
Sections
Economic
Deliver
Economic Policy
Fail
Failing
Policy
Doomed
While
Large
Orthodoxy
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.
Arancha Gonzalez
Technology
Business
Communication
Broader
Responsive
Environment
Roads
Trade
Governments
Improving
Committed
Sizes
Information
Infrastructure
Transportation
Help
Electricity
Companies
Ports
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.
Arancha Gonzalez
Agriculture
Value
Focus
Consider
Addition
Broader
Diversification
Pursuit
Economies
Discourse
African
Transforming
Should
Manufacturing
Growth
Services
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.
Arancha Gonzalez
Day
Every Day
People
Matter
Job
Creation
Every
Medium-Sized
Meet
Markets
Job Creation
Boost
Immensely
Enterprises
Small
Consumption
Head
Trade
Improving
Sustainable
Which
Centre
Them
Production
Help
International
Connecting
Works
International Trade
Growth
Competitiveness
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.
Arancha Gonzalez
Work
Poverty
Carolina
Out
Jobs
Some
Cost
Factory
Lifted
Like
North
Did
North Carolina
China
Places
Workers
Vietnam
Millions
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.
Arancha Gonzalez
Work
Education
Health
Women
Money
Men
Control
Spent
More
Invest
Over
How
Women Are
Families
Than
Gets
Much
Paid
Income
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.
Arancha Gonzalez
Challenges
Responsibility
Become
Community
Crisis
Solutions
Collectively
Find
Facing
Most
Unfolding
Stake
Us
Act
International
International Community
Lives
Acute
Millions
Need
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.
Arancha Gonzalez
Work
Country
Building
Medium-Sized
Markets
Small
Economic
Economic Growth
Host
Alongside
Refugees
Create
Communities
Businesses
International
Connecting
Growth
Resilience
Governments around the world are looking for economic growth and job creation. African economies are no exception, with increasing recognition that growth has to be built on a more diversified economic structure in order to make a lasting contribution to development.
Arancha Gonzalez
World
Job
Looking
Creation
Lasting
Increasing
Job Creation
Recognition
No Exception
Diversified
Structure
More
Economic
Exception
Economic Growth
Development
Economies
Make
Around
Built
Governments
Contribution
African
Order
Growth
Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use in Asia and Latin America in the 1960s.
Arancha Gonzalez
Revolution
Latin
Latin America
Seeds
Driven
Share
Greater
Fertilizer
Green
America
Did
Modern
African
Irrigation
Gains
Asia
Use
Farmers
Productivity
Many
Techniques
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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Rose
Back
Latest
High
Crop
Cash
Ten
Ten Years
Prices
Had
Consumption
Leading
Demand
Principally
Household
Cultivated
Been
Years
Sell
Up
Grain
Grew
Incentive
Farmers
International
Plateau
Skyrocketing
Nearly
International consumers can rest assured that their quinoa purchases have benefited some of Latin America's poorest people, together with their families.
Arancha Gonzalez
Together
People
Rest
Assured
Latin
Purchases
Some
Consumers
Families
America
Poorest
International
Jobs are the main channel through which people share in - or are left out of - economic growth.
Arancha Gonzalez
People
Channel
Out
Jobs
Economic
Through
Economic Growth
Main
Share
Left
Which
Growth
In landlocked developing countries, geographical barriers to markets are unnecessarily accompanied by virtual ones: their e-connectivity rates are among the world's lowest.
Arancha Gonzalez
World
Virtual
Markets
Unnecessarily
Rates
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Geographical
Accompanied
Lowest
Barriers
Among
Companies that operate across borders have the expertise SMEs need. Who better to help smallholder farmers navigate complex sustainability standards than the companies who demand - or set - them?
Arancha Gonzalez
Better
Complex
Borders
Demand
Operate
Than
Sustainability
Expertise
Them
Across
Farmers
Help
Standards
Who
Companies
Navigate
Need
Set
Most people - including business leaders - want a healthy future for their children.
Arancha Gonzalez
Future
Business
People
Healthy
Leaders
Most
Children
Want
Business Leaders
Including
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.
Arancha Gonzalez
Knowledge
Business
Change
Experience
Action
Way
Consumer
Between
Missing
Make
Often
Intent
Decisions
Means
Actually
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.
Arancha Gonzalez
Desperation
Financial
Destruction
Wildlife
Economic
Drives
Powerful
Like
Around
Trade
Often
Them
Create
Communities
Incentives
Help
Illegal
Biodiversity
Preserve
ITC works to help firms in poor countries become more competitive and overcome the barriers that are keeping their goods and services out of international markets.
Arancha Gonzalez
Overcome
Become
Markets
Out
More
Countries
Goods
Poor
Poor Countries
Help
International
Barriers
Works
Keeping
Services
Competitive
In my job, as head of the International Trade Centre, I have the privilege to meet entrepreneurs from across the world almost on a daily basis.
Arancha Gonzalez
Daily
World
Job
Meet
Entrepreneurs
Head
Almost
Trade
Privilege
Centre
Across
International
International Trade
Daily Basis
Basis
Sometimes all it takes to connect entrepreneurs to overseas buyers is to get them into the same room.
Arancha Gonzalez
Sometimes
Entrepreneurs
Takes
Overseas
Get
Same
Room
Them
Connect
Buyers
The populists are right in one key area: voters want jobs and equitable growth, and can hardly be faulted for that. The challenge is to find a more inclusive growth trajectory that can be sustained economically, ecologically, and politically.
Arancha Gonzalez
Key
Challenge
Inclusive
Jobs
Find
More
Area
Economically
Voters
Equitable
Trajectory
Politically
Want
Sustained
Growth
Right
Hardly
Some of the anti-trade sentiment is the result of rising wealth inequality and stagnating real wages.
Arancha Gonzalez
Wealth
Result
Sentiment
Some
Rising
Inequality
Real
Wages
In a climate where governments are limited in what they can spend, trade and investment offer a path to fiscally responsible growth.
Arancha Gonzalez
Path
Spend
Responsible
Investment
Trade
Limited
Climate
Fiscally
Governments
Offer
Where
Growth
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