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Excellence award for ITC partner in Tajikistan

03/13/2013 7:42:31 AM

Consulting company Kamolot-1, which is a partner of the Trade Promotion Programme of the International Trade Centre (ITC) in Tajikistan and is run by ITC national consultants, has been awarded the Gabriel Al-Salem International Award for Excellence in...

Non-tariff measures affecting Mauritian trade

02/04/2013 9:49:26 AM

Developing a national food control strategy and accreditation of official laboratories are some of the steps that Mauritius must take to remove barriers to trade. These and other issues were discussed at a workshop in Mauritius on 24 January where the...

Joined-up value-chain thinking

01/21/2013 3:43:08 AM

Approximately four million people in developing countries move from rural areas to live in cities every week. While living in rural locations, these people had access to supplies of basic fresh produce of some sort in a local market or from family smallholdings....

Growth, innovation and inclusiveness

01/14/2013 2:58:06 AM

This autumn the International Trade Centre (ITC) has organized several events to ensure that growth, innovation and inclusion stay on top of the global trade and development agenda.At the World Export Development Forum 2012 (WEDF), held in Jakarta on...

Boosting Business for Trade Promotion Organizations through Innovation

10/18/2012 5:05:27 AM

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

how they can promote innovation, improve their operations, and better meet the needs of their exporters.

Trade-analysis training for Peruvian professionals

07/25/2012 10:47:35 AM

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...

Hands-on approach helps to increase skills of Uganda’s farm associations

07/09/2012 9:14:00 AM

The Steering Group of ITC’s NTF II Uganda project on 4-6 June visited farmers’ associations and farms in the country to get a first-hand experience of how the project is developing. The Steering group also met the projects partner organizations, the...

ITC and Côte d'Ivoire to strengthen cooperation

07/03/2012 1:15:02 PM

ITC’s Executive Director Patricia Francis and members of ITC’s management and Office for Africa on 2 July met a delegation from Côte d'Ivoire to discuss continued cooperation between the two sides in the West African country. The Ivorian delegation was...

ITC executive director calls for removal of bottlenecks to trade

06/28/2012 11:52:05 AM

ITC Executive Director Patricia Francis on 27 June urged trade-policy analysts to put focus on the business perspective of trade and development and to identify ways of bringing a critical view on non-tariff measures (NTMs) into research. Addressing...

Free online tool for analysing trade and market conditions upgraded

06/28/2012 8:09:32 AM

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) exporting from developing countries suffer the brunt of complying with market access conditions.To make market entry rules more transparent, ITC has redeveloped its online analysis tool Market Access Map, available as 30 June 2012. Users in developing countries and territories can use the tool at no cost...

ITC opens field office for PACIR in Abidjan

05/04/2012 3:47:29 AM

The Trade Support and Regional Integration Programme for the Côte d’Ivoire (PACIR) is ITC’s largest country-based programme. We are pleased to announce the opening of an office in Abidjan to facilitate ITC work in the country and region...

ITC team analyzes the brand “Bangladesh”

04/02/2012 11:19:31 AM

While Bangladesh is recognized as a growth-oriented, high-potential economy, the image of the country abroad lacks positive...

Committing to quality in Kyrgyzstan

03/30/2012 9:40:56 AM

At a plant in the North-East of Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek, a 20-minute ride from the city centre over potholed roads, 23-year-old Bakhtiyar Kudakeldiev works as a water bottling operator. He does not know it, but he benefits from an ITC programme...

Opening the door for African exporters

03/30/2012 9:26:39 AM

Estelle Ahoyo is the chief executive officer of Ets Estella & Fils, a small enterprise in Benin that is involved in the production and export of fruit and vegetables. Her company has been growing steadily since it was established two years ago. Today,...

Tools to improve private sector operations

03/30/2012 9:11:54 AM

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...

A private sector mandate: think regional

03/30/2012 6:16:35 AM

‘The private sector is not thinking regionally’ is an echo I often hear in government circles charged with the responsibility of promoting intra-African trade. Basking in the comfort of supplying domestic markets, private businesses fear competition...

WTO General Council recognizes ITC’s contribution to LDC accession, the Cotton Initiative and the Aid for Trade agenda

12/08/2011 11:39:15 AM

The WTO General Council acknowledged several ITC accomplishments in its report adopted at its annual meeting on 30 November in Geneva. It highlighted ITC’s assistance to Least Developed Countries in their WTO accession process, the organization’s...

Aspiration vs. reality: Local perspectives on regional trade

12/08/2011 9:33:41 AM

While certain proponents of global free trade may disagree, regional trade blocs offer a compelling model for economic development. By removing barriers to trade within a region – harmonizing regulation to enable the free flow of goods, services and...

Towards an economic community in Southeast Asia

12/08/2011 8:44:42 AM

Asia’s coming of age has been the development story of the past 40 years. The reasons for this are varied, but some of the more significant factors have been knowledge exchange, technology transfer, and increased economic integration and cooperation...

Using the power of APEC to advance women in trade

12/07/2011 11:16:50 AM

Women are a significant force in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), a forum for 21 Pacific-rim countries and the primary vehicle for promoting open trade and practical economic cooperation in the region. Despite advances made since the first APEC...

Economic integration in Asia-Pacific

12/07/2011 11:08:15 AM

Three years after the financial crisis, the global economy remains weak, and fears of another recession persist. The euro zone debt crisis, a slowdown in the United States economy and volatile food and energy prices threaten to send shockwaves around...

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...

Leveraging Private Partnerships: Smallholders tap new markets in Guatemala

09/27/2011 10:52:31 AM

Before the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) came to the isolated El Quiché region in the highlands of Guatemala more than 20 years ago, the roads were few and far between, irrigation systems and processing centres were virtually...

Tourism as an economic tool: Shapting strategic positioning to attract tourists to least developed countries

07/26/2011 6:00:00 AM

Strategic positioning is the first thing developing countries should do when considering tourism as an economic tool. It requires the development of a carefully constructed, unique proposition that frames the attractions offered to tourists...

Latin Pharma 2011

07/21/2011 10:31:29 AM

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LatinPharma 2011

07/21/2011 5:45:09 AM

LatinPharma 2011 NEW BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AT LATINPHARMA EVENT 24-26 November 2011 - Lima, Peru LatinPharma is the premier event for pharmaceutical firms from across Latin America to negotiate new business deals. The international conference and business matchmaking event, organized by ITC for the sevent

Wines of Chile - Sustainability Program

07/11/2011 11:46:06 AM

Under the umbrella of Vinos de Chile, the Chilean wine industry identified the need to strengthen the sustainability of the country’s wine sector. In May 2010, the association’s technical branch, Consorcios del Vino, launched the Wines of Chile...

Laos from Land-Locked to ‘Land-Linked’ - A Case Study in the Benefits of South–South Trade for Least Developed Countries

07/11/2011 11:30:17 AM

Through a rethink of its trade policy, Laos has demonstrated how developing countries, in particular least developed countries (LDCs), must reposition themselves to take advantage of emerging markets. As a landlocked country Laos’ international...

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...

SustainabiliTEA - Value in Partnership

07/05/2011 9:47:35 AM

A collaboration between the Rainforest Alliance, Unilever and the Kenya Tea Development Agency is changing the global tea industry.In December 2009, for the first time, a group of 12,500 smallholder tea farmers achieved Rainforest Alliance certification...

Building Linkages for Export Success

06/16/2011 4:23:25 AM

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

Tropical Fruits and Vegetables in China: Market overview

06/09/2011 5:31:20 AM

Tropical Fruits and Vegetables in China: Market overview China is the world’s top fruit and vegetable producer, with vegetable outputs alone totalling 49% of global output. The Chinese market for tropical fruits and vegetables is set to keep on growing at a steady pace in the near future. For least developed cou

Ethical Fashion: Quality control in Africa Community Projects

02/24/2011 6:43:27 PM

In East Africa, an ITC Ethical Fashion project is demonstrating that international quality and standards can be met, even in the most remote and impoverished communities.

Fairtrade: New business model taps markets in the South

02/24/2011 6:42:41 PM

With the emergence of new markets in the South, Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International's standards are adapting to become more than a doorway to export markets in the North.With the continuing shift in economic activity from developed to developing countries, the trend towards consumer growth in emerging markets requires transnational corporations to rethink the way they do business in the South. Fairtrade Labelling Organizations (FLO) International sees these global changes as an opportunity to introduce its international social certification system to consumer markets in the South.

Export quality management programme: ITC overcoming technical barriers to trade

02/24/2011 6:40:26 PM

Quality is a prerequisite for successful market access and increasing revenues from export, but meeting technical requirements in the international marketplace is a challenge for many exporters.

PACT 2 - COMESA Networks of National and Regional TSIs

12/07/2010 11:28:56 AM

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Nepal - Trade-related capacity building

12/07/2010 11:16:54 AM

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Malaysia - Strengthening the training department of the Trade Development Corporation MATRADE

12/07/2010 10:19:43 AM

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Expansion du commerce intra et inter-regional pour les pays francophones du Mekong

12/06/2010 9:37:21 AM

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Finland Boosts its Funding for ITC Projects to 3.4 million Euros

11/29/2010 9:33:25 AM

Finland has pledged to contribute €1.6 million to International Trade Centre (ITC) projects in 2010 followed by a further €1.8 million in 2011, a total of €3.4 million for 2010 and 2011.