<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Generating business leads - RSS Feed</title><link>http://www.intracen.org//layouts/RSSFeed.aspx?id=48863</link><description /><item><title>Enabling the business environment for trade and investment?</title><description>Since its first publication in 2008, the Global Enabling Trade Report, which is published by the World Economic Forum, has become a valuable reference tool for many countries in their efforts to increase trade and for many companies by allowing them...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/Enabling-the-business-environment-for-trade-and-investment/</link><pubDate>02/07/2013 10:10:19 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>ITC’s Trade Map country data reaches record high</title><description>Up-to-date trade data for more than 110 countries is now available on ITC’s Trade Map, helping businesses and trade support institutions (TSIs) to analyse international trade flows impacting their business, so that they can identify and export markets...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/ITC’s-Trade-Map-country-data-reaches-record-high/</link><pubDate>12/28/2012 9:53:23 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Bangladesh’s IT industry eyes global success</title><description>Bangladesh's reputation as a prime outsourcing destination is growing thanks to the decision of major European companies to open their markets to the country's information technology firms, according to Fahim Mashroor. Mashroor was elected President...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/Bangladesh’s-IT-industry-eyes-global-success/</link><pubDate>10/19/2012 11:46:42 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Boosting Business for Trade Promotion Organizations through Innovation</title><description>&lt;p&gt;The 2012 TPO Network World
Conference, Transforming TPOs’ Business through Innovation, today opened in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Over two days, against the backdrop of the on-going
global economic crisis, Trade Promotion Organizations will, explore &lt;font size="3" face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;how they can promote
innovation, improve their operations, and better meet the needs of their
exporters. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3" face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/Boosting-Business-for-Trade-Promotion-Organizations-through-Innovation/</link><pubDate>10/18/2012 5:05:27 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>South Sudan wants ITC to help boost private-sector growth</title><description>As part of its work to build institutional capacities for the private sector and improve trade, the Government of the Republic of South Sudan at a recent high-level meeting in Juba asked ITC to assist in its efforts to achieve these goals. The meeting,...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/South-Sudan-wants-ITC-to-help-boost-private-sector-growth/</link><pubDate>08/02/2012 5:13:13 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Trade-analysis training for Peruvian professionals</title><description>Researching and analysing export markets were the topics of two recent ITC-led workshops in Peru, targeted at professionals working on trade support. The first workshop, which took place in Tarapoto on 30 May-1 June, looked how to gather and analyse...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/Trade-analysis-training-for-Peruvian-professionals/</link><pubDate>07/25/2012 10:47:35 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Tunisia&amp;#39;s organic-food exporters target Gulf market</title><description>Starting a revolution is one thing, ensuring that it leads to change for good is another. While most Tunisians are preoccupied in ensuring that the uprising that they started in December 2010 and later spread to the wider Arab world, there are different...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/Tunisia39s-organic-food-exporters-target-Gulf-market/</link><pubDate>06/13/2012 11:21:35 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Tools to improve private sector operations</title><description>The African Development Bank (AfDB) has a mandate to foster social and economic development and reduce poverty in its regional member countries. For many years, it has supported private sector development operations that seek to improve business-enabling...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/article/Tools-to-improve-private-sector-operations/</link><pubDate>03/30/2012 9:11:54 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Developing future trade policy leaders</title><description>Building the capacity to participate in global trade is becoming increasingly critical for economic growth in developing countries. This is not a task with a clear start and end; it is a process that has to be set in motion with small initiatives. One...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/article/Developing-future-trade-policy-leaders/</link><pubDate>12/12/2011 9:15:51 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>ITC provides access in four ways to bolster trade</title><description>ITC
Deputy Executive Director addresses annual advisory group meeting Addressing
the annual Joint Advisory (JAG) meeting, Jean-Marie Paugam, Deputy Executive
Director of the International Trade Centre (ITC) emphasized four innovative
contributions...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/ITC-provides-access-in-four-ways-to-bolster-trade/</link><pubDate>06/30/2011 10:46:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Building Linkages for Export Success</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Building Linkages for Export Success This handbook produced jointly by ISO and ITC describes the role of quality in export competitiveness and its implications for developing country exporters and support institutions; considers the role of national standards bodies (NSBs) and that of trade promotion organization&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/Building-Linkages-for-Export-Success/</link><pubDate>06/16/2011 4:23:25 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Global supply chains: The role of international standards and conformity assessment</title><description>As global supply chains continue to grow, the international accreditation network, underpinned by internationally agreed standards, plays an essential role in the support of competitive markets and cross-border trade. This is increasingly important as businesses seek to lower costs or satisfy contract terms while maintaining a level of confidence that products are technically compatible, to specification and safe.</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/Global-Supply-Chains-The-Role-of-International-Standards-and-Conformity-Assessment/</link><pubDate>02/24/2011 6:41:56 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>New handbook aims to enhance export capability of developing countries</title><description>&lt;p&gt;  Building
linkages for export success  is a new handbook that explores the
different ways that closer collaboration between national standards bodies (NSBs)
and trade promotion organizations...&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/New-handbook-aims-to-enhance-export-capability-of-developing-countries/</link><pubDate>01/11/2011 2:33:26 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Sierra Leone - Support to the Export Development and Investment Corporation (SLEDIC)</title><description>&lt;p&gt;ITC project&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/layouts/three-column.aspx?pageid=49080&amp;id=1448</link><pubDate>12/07/2010 12:23:14 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>Strengthening the pineapple export value chain in selected West African countries - Business generation(2)</title><description>&lt;p&gt;  Strengthening the pineapple export value chain in selected West African countries - Business generation 
 2010-07-01 
 2012-04-30 
 one 
  1967 
  
 
  
 true 
 &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/layouts/three-column.aspx?pageid=49080&amp;id=1367</link><pubDate>12/07/2010 8:33:06 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Trade, climate change and environment programme</title><description>&lt;p&gt;  Trade, climate change and environment programme 
 2010-01-01 
 2013-04-30 
 one 
  1915 
  
 
  
 true 
 &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/layouts/three-column.aspx?pageid=49080&amp;id=1333</link><pubDate>12/06/2010 12:02:40 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>South East Asia - Pilot for a regional SME finance and knowledge centre</title><description>&lt;p&gt;  South East Asia - Pilot for a regional SME finance and knowledge centre 
 2001-10-15 
 2010-09-30 
 one 
  1909 
  
 
  
 true 
 &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/south-east-asia-pilot-for-a-regional-sme-finance-and-knowledge-centre/</link><pubDate>12/06/2010 11:42:14 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Cape Verde - OneUN trade and productive capacities development</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Cape Verde - OneUN trade and productive capacities development 2009-09-01 2010-12-31 one 1859 true &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/layouts/three-column.aspx?pageid=49080&amp;id=1278</link><pubDate>12/06/2010 6:32:50 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Enabling the business environment for trade and investment?</title><description>Since its first publication in 2008, the Global Enabling Trade Report, which is published by the World Economic Forum, has become a valuable reference tool for many countries in their efforts to increase trade and for many companies by allowing them...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/Enabling-the-business-environment-for-trade-and-investment/</link><pubDate>02/07/2013 10:10:19 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>ITC’s Trade Map country data reaches record high</title><description>Up-to-date trade data for more than 110 countries is now available on ITC’s Trade Map, helping businesses and trade support institutions (TSIs) to analyse international trade flows impacting their business, so that they can identify and export markets...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/ITC’s-Trade-Map-country-data-reaches-record-high/</link><pubDate>12/28/2012 9:53:23 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Bangladesh’s IT industry eyes global success</title><description>Bangladesh's reputation as a prime outsourcing destination is growing thanks to the decision of major European companies to open their markets to the country's information technology firms, according to Fahim Mashroor. Mashroor was elected President...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/Bangladesh’s-IT-industry-eyes-global-success/</link><pubDate>10/19/2012 11:46:42 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Boosting Business for Trade Promotion Organizations through Innovation</title><description>&lt;p&gt;The 2012 TPO Network World
Conference, Transforming TPOs’ Business through Innovation, today opened in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Over two days, against the backdrop of the on-going
global economic crisis, Trade Promotion Organizations will, explore &lt;font size="3" face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;how they can promote
innovation, improve their operations, and better meet the needs of their
exporters. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3" face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/Boosting-Business-for-Trade-Promotion-Organizations-through-Innovation/</link><pubDate>10/18/2012 5:05:27 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>South Sudan wants ITC to help boost private-sector growth</title><description>As part of its work to build institutional capacities for the private sector and improve trade, the Government of the Republic of South Sudan at a recent high-level meeting in Juba asked ITC to assist in its efforts to achieve these goals. The meeting,...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/South-Sudan-wants-ITC-to-help-boost-private-sector-growth/</link><pubDate>08/02/2012 5:13:13 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Trade-analysis training for Peruvian professionals</title><description>Researching and analysing export markets were the topics of two recent ITC-led workshops in Peru, targeted at professionals working on trade support. The first workshop, which took place in Tarapoto on 30 May-1 June, looked how to gather and analyse...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/Trade-analysis-training-for-Peruvian-professionals/</link><pubDate>07/25/2012 10:47:35 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Tunisia&amp;#39;s organic-food exporters target Gulf market</title><description>Starting a revolution is one thing, ensuring that it leads to change for good is another. While most Tunisians are preoccupied in ensuring that the uprising that they started in December 2010 and later spread to the wider Arab world, there are different...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/Tunisia39s-organic-food-exporters-target-Gulf-market/</link><pubDate>06/13/2012 11:21:35 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Tools to improve private sector operations</title><description>The African Development Bank (AfDB) has a mandate to foster social and economic development and reduce poverty in its regional member countries. For many years, it has supported private sector development operations that seek to improve business-enabling...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/article/Tools-to-improve-private-sector-operations/</link><pubDate>03/30/2012 9:11:54 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Developing future trade policy leaders</title><description>Building the capacity to participate in global trade is becoming increasingly critical for economic growth in developing countries. This is not a task with a clear start and end; it is a process that has to be set in motion with small initiatives. One...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/article/Developing-future-trade-policy-leaders/</link><pubDate>12/12/2011 9:15:51 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>ITC provides access in four ways to bolster trade</title><description>ITC
Deputy Executive Director addresses annual advisory group meeting Addressing
the annual Joint Advisory (JAG) meeting, Jean-Marie Paugam, Deputy Executive
Director of the International Trade Centre (ITC) emphasized four innovative
contributions...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/ITC-provides-access-in-four-ways-to-bolster-trade/</link><pubDate>06/30/2011 10:46:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Building Linkages for Export Success</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Building Linkages for Export Success This handbook produced jointly by ISO and ITC describes the role of quality in export competitiveness and its implications for developing country exporters and support institutions; considers the role of national standards bodies (NSBs) and that of trade promotion organization&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/Building-Linkages-for-Export-Success/</link><pubDate>06/16/2011 4:23:25 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Global supply chains: The role of international standards and conformity assessment</title><description>As global supply chains continue to grow, the international accreditation network, underpinned by internationally agreed standards, plays an essential role in the support of competitive markets and cross-border trade. This is increasingly important as businesses seek to lower costs or satisfy contract terms while maintaining a level of confidence that products are technically compatible, to specification and safe.</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/Global-Supply-Chains-The-Role-of-International-Standards-and-Conformity-Assessment/</link><pubDate>02/24/2011 6:41:56 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>New handbook aims to enhance export capability of developing countries</title><description>&lt;p&gt;  Building
linkages for export success  is a new handbook that explores the
different ways that closer collaboration between national standards bodies (NSBs)
and trade promotion organizations...&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/New-handbook-aims-to-enhance-export-capability-of-developing-countries/</link><pubDate>01/11/2011 2:33:26 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Sierra Leone - Support to the Export Development and Investment Corporation (SLEDIC)</title><description>&lt;p&gt;ITC project&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/layouts/three-column.aspx?pageid=49080&amp;id=1448</link><pubDate>12/07/2010 12:23:14 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>Strengthening the pineapple export value chain in selected West African countries - Business generation(2)</title><description>&lt;p&gt;  Strengthening the pineapple export value chain in selected West African countries - Business generation 
 2010-07-01 
 2012-04-30 
 one 
  1967 
  
 
  
 true 
 &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/layouts/three-column.aspx?pageid=49080&amp;id=1367</link><pubDate>12/07/2010 8:33:06 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Trade, climate change and environment programme</title><description>&lt;p&gt;  Trade, climate change and environment programme 
 2010-01-01 
 2013-04-30 
 one 
  1915 
  
 
  
 true 
 &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/layouts/three-column.aspx?pageid=49080&amp;id=1333</link><pubDate>12/06/2010 12:02:40 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>South East Asia - Pilot for a regional SME finance and knowledge centre</title><description>&lt;p&gt;  South East Asia - Pilot for a regional SME finance and knowledge centre 
 2001-10-15 
 2010-09-30 
 one 
  1909 
  
 
  
 true 
 &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/south-east-asia-pilot-for-a-regional-sme-finance-and-knowledge-centre/</link><pubDate>12/06/2010 11:42:14 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Cape Verde - OneUN trade and productive capacities development</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Cape Verde - OneUN trade and productive capacities development 2009-09-01 2010-12-31 one 1859 true &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/layouts/three-column.aspx?pageid=49080&amp;id=1278</link><pubDate>12/06/2010 6:32:50 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Enabling the business environment for trade and investment?</title><description>Since its first publication in 2008, the Global Enabling Trade Report, which is published by the World Economic Forum, has become a valuable reference tool for many countries in their efforts to increase trade and for many companies by allowing them...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/Enabling-the-business-environment-for-trade-and-investment/</link><pubDate>02/07/2013 10:10:19 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>ITC’s Trade Map country data reaches record high</title><description>Up-to-date trade data for more than 110 countries is now available on ITC’s Trade Map, helping businesses and trade support institutions (TSIs) to analyse international trade flows impacting their business, so that they can identify and export markets...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/ITC’s-Trade-Map-country-data-reaches-record-high/</link><pubDate>12/28/2012 9:53:23 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Bangladesh’s IT industry eyes global success</title><description>Bangladesh's reputation as a prime outsourcing destination is growing thanks to the decision of major European companies to open their markets to the country's information technology firms, according to Fahim Mashroor. Mashroor was elected President...</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/Bangladesh’s-IT-industry-eyes-global-success/</link><pubDate>10/19/2012 11:46:42 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Boosting Business for Trade Promotion Organizations through Innovation</title><description>&lt;p&gt;The 2012 TPO Network World
Conference, Transforming TPOs’ Business through Innovation, today opened in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Over two days, against the backdrop of the on-going
global economic crisis, Trade Promotion Organizations will, explore &lt;font size="3" face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;how they can promote
innovation, improve their operations, and better meet the needs of their
exporters. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3" face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.intracen.org/news/Boosting-Business-for-Trade-Promotion-Organizations-through-Innovation/</link><pubDate>10/18/2012 5:05:27 AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss