ITC’s vision and mandate –
export impact for good – aims to ensure that trade development
creates employment and generates income, contributes to poverty
reduction and the fulfilment of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
In targeted programmes we help to connect disadvantaged groups,
including women, to global markets as a powerful means of addressing
poverty, raising livelihoods in a sustainable manner and promoting
entrepreneurship. “For good’’ thus stands, on the one hand, for ITC
’s commitment to inclusive economic globalization, connecting the
poorest and most marginalized to international markets as a means of
addressing poverty and, on the other hand, for raising livelihoods
through exports in a sustainable manner, with a lasting effect – for
good.
ITC, UNCTAD amd WTO have joined to monitor progress on market
access indicators for Goal 8 of the MDGs. This data is
available on a collective UN web site,
www.mdg-trade.org
Trade Forum Stories on MDGs
ITC's magazine Trade Forum has many cases and stories related to
trade and the MDGs
