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Another Danish-Bangladeshi matchmaking success

03/13/2013 8:47:29 AM

A matchmaking event hosted by the International Trade Centre’s NTFII Bangladesh team in Dhaka at the beginning of March last year saw led to two companies forge what has proven to be a stable relationship. Bangladeshi company Nascenia IT won a new customer...

Enhancing the role of e-business for development

03/01/2013 6:35:58 AM

Increasing the security of online payments, supporting local innovation and entrepreneurship, and ensuring consistent regulations are some of the improvements needed to encourage the development of e-business, according to a survey presented by the International...

Outsourcing contract helps BrainStation-23 enter Danish market

02/25/2013 10:50:29 AM

The global economic slump means companies such as nSales have limited funds to invest in new technology. nSales, a Danish company, makes sales automation systems that enable people visiting shops to order products for their factories or corporate offices...

Taking steps to boost the Bangladeshi software industry

01/11/2013 9:39:58 AM

The International Trade Centre’s (ITC) NTF II Bangladesh team on 7 December (2012) organized an IT industry roundtable discussion at the Digital World conference in Dhaka. During the discussion recommendations from the United Nations Conference on Trade...

Netherlands Hosts Seminar, B2B Meetings for Bangladeshi IT Firms

12/26/2012 5:30:26 AM

Dauphine, a former car dealership by Amstelstation and now a hip hangout for the local service-industry crowd, was the venue for an NTFII Bangladesh Cloud event on 10 October focusing on the role offshore service providers can play in this new ecosystem....

Bangladesh readies itself for global business

12/11/2012 11:52:17 AM

‘Bangladesh has positioned itself as a prime location through enhancing its capability and skill availability, lower costs of operations, and by making targeted investments into telecom and IT infrastructure.’ That was one of the key messages delivered...

Interregional and intraregional trade in emerging markets identified as key to addressing global economic crisis

10/15/2012 8:02:16 AM

Emerging markets will account for upwards of 80 percent of total global GDP growth in 2012, driven in part by trade within and between these markets. One of the rare bright spots in global economic news, growth in interregional and intraregional trade among emerging markets makes up one-fifth of the world’s total trade and is expected to surpass North-South trade flows by 2030.

New approaches to feeding the world’s population

09/28/2011 8:12:11 AM

Development aid has targeted food security and agri-business for more than 40 years, but has yet to succeed in overcoming the imbalance between supply and demand. Nor has it made much impact on reducing hunger and rural poverty among communities that...

Colombian Coffee - Challenges and Opportunities Ahead for the Colombian Coffee Growers’ Federation

07/11/2011 11:22:31 AM

For many years Colombian Coffee has being recognized as one of the most important coffee producers in the world. In response to changes in the global coffee market, the Colombian Coffee Growers’ Federation has successfully adapted its supply chain...

BB 2010-04-30 General Agreement on Trade in Services - Part 17

03/18/2011 5:45:24 AM

Liberalisation in most markets around the world has inspired dramatic growth. By 2006, total world telephone subscribers had reached nearly 4 billion (fixed and mobile), a level which brought global...

BB 2010-04-23 General Agreement on Trade in Services - Part 16

03/18/2011 4:59:45 AM

Logistics Services: Logistics services have always been an element of supply chain management in global trade, however with the onset of computer technology and e-commerce this service sector has become increasingly important in ...

BB 2010-04-09 General Agreement on Trade in Services - Part 14

03/17/2011 10:45:20 AM

Environmental services are primarily provided by governments and normally considered to be either public goods (e.g. road cleaning, garbage collection etc.) or natural monopolies...

BB 2010-03-26 General Agreement on Trade in Services - Part 12

03/17/2011 6:27:45 AM

It is important to note that the information presented is to provide a basic understanding of the sector through a brief overview and how it relates to the GATS.

BB 2010-03-19 General Agreement on Trade in Services - Part 11

03/17/2011 6:09:42 AM

Traditionally, postal services have been services supplied by state-owned entities that have a monopoly on basic mail services, while courier services, usually parcel delivery or expedited mail services, are often supplied by privately owned companies.

BB 2010-02-26 General Agreement on Trade in Services - Part 8

03/16/2011 11:14:12 AM

Professional services are classified in the Services Sectoral Classification list under Business Services (W/120; 1.A.). This sub-sector is wide ranging and heterogeneous.

BB 2010-02-19 General Agreements on Trade in Services - Part 7

03/16/2011 9:51:40 AM

The following exercise reviews the basic principles and obligations that have been presented in the first six parts of the series on General Agreement on Trade in Services.

BB 2010-02-12 General Agreement on Trade in Services - Part 6

03/16/2011 6:48:31 AM

It is a basic principle of the Agreement that the most favoured nation (MFN) treatment applies to all measures affecting trade in services.

BB 2010-02-05 General Agreement on Trade in Services - Part 5

03/15/2011 11:43:09 AM

GATS Commitments Commitments in a Member’s Schedule set out the levels of liberalisation that have been undertaken in a given sector. A schedule includes two parts: the horizontal section and the sector specific section. Both parts are organised in the same manner...

BB 2010-01-29 General Agreement on Trade in Services - Part 4

03/15/2011 11:34:24 AM

MUTUAL RECOGNITION AGREEMENTS. Recognition disciplines in Article VII set out the criteria for arrangements to facilitate the authorization, licensing or...

BB 2010-01-22 General Agreement on Trade in Services - Part 3

03/15/2011 9:50:57 AM

The general obligations and disciplines of the WTO Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) contain many of the same principles that are the cornerstones of the multilateral trading system as a whole.

BB 2010-01-15 General Agreement on Trade in Services - Part 2

03/15/2011 9:15:45 AM

The WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) defines trade in services by means of four different ways in which they can be supplied.

BB 2010-01-08 General Agreement on Trade in Services - Intro

03/15/2011 9:02:23 AM

The Uruguay Round of trade talks (1986-1994) created the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS or the Agreement), bringing services trade within the multilateral framework of international trade law for the first time.

Service Pioneers: Stories of Innovative Entrepreneurs

03/09/2011 10:44:49 AM

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EC-Cariforum Economic Partnership Agreement: Services and Investment Commitments

03/09/2011 8:57:51 AM

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ISO 26000: Putting social responsibility to work

02/24/2011 6:41:25 PM

Recognition of the need for more ethically responsible business practices has seen the emergence of a strong global movement to embrace and promote the concept of social responsibility (SR).

Developing Countries Urged to Focus on the Value of Exports Rather Than Volume

01/10/2011 11:49:48 AM

Focusing on the value of exports rather than simply their volume is a key means for developing countries to survive and prosper in times of economic crisis, said Patricia R. Francis, ITC's Executive Director...

NTF II Bangladesh

12/03/2010 9:36:10 AM

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