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WEDF 2012 Highlights Role of Finance Access in Emerging Market Export Success

10/17/2012 7:39:58 AM

Discussions on overcoming barriers impeding access to trade finance in emerging markets bookended the 13th edition of WEDF 2012 today. The event has brought together 400 delegates representing more than 40 countries from across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America to debate approaches to expanding trade flows between and within the world’s growth markets...

Trade Promotion Organizations compete for top awards

10/05/2012 2:16:49 AM

ITC today announced the shortlist of candidates for the 2012 TPO Network Awards – Excellence in Export Development Initiatives. Eleven national Trade Promotion Organizations from Austria, Benin, the Dominican Republic, France, Jamaica, Jordan, Lithuania, Mexico, Uganda, the United Arab Emirates and Zambia have been nominated for this year’s shortlist...

Business associations in Africa: what are their potentials?

09/13/2012 8:16:41 AM

ITC has recently completed studies that identify business association in selected African regions and assess their capacity and areas of interest on trade policy issues and business advocacy. The three separate studies focus on the regions of the East...

TPO Network Conference: Kuala Lumpur, 18-19 October

07/24/2012 2:48:15 AM

ITC and the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation announced today that the ninth Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) Network World Conference and Awards will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 18-19 October with the theme Transforming TPOs’ Business through Innovation...

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...

Deadline approaching for the 2012 TPO network award entries

06/13/2012 2:02:11 PM

The International Trade Centre (ITC) today urged national trade promotion organizations (TPOs) around the world not to miss the rapidly approaching deadline for participation in the 2012 TPO Network Awards competition. Winners of this year’s competition...

Dutch minister gets close-up look at NTFII Bangladesh achievements

06/07/2012 9:03:39 AM

Ben Knapen, the Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation, got to learn first-hand about the accomplishments of the Netherlands Trust Fund II (NTFII) Bangladesh Project during a recent visit to Dhaka (22-23 May). Alphons Hennekens, the Dutch Ambassador...

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...

Past TPO Network Award winners reflect on benefits of winning and look toward the adjudicating role before them

05/03/2012 8:46:17 AM

Past winners of ITC’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) Network Awards admit that entering the awards is a comprehensive process, but what they also say is that the benefits of winning have gone beyond their expectations...

Responding to global trade challenges necessitates a rethink in approaches

12/15/2011 1:49:13 PM

Innovative ways of thinking are necessary in order to respond to the ever-changing global economy, according to Patricia R. Francis, Executive Director of ITC. In her speech during the opening session of the WTO MC8, Ms. Francis emphasized that ITC is reinventing itself to keep up with the changing environment in order to provide state of the art value to the poorest countries...

Empowering Zambian farmers through South-South cooperation

12/08/2011 11:10:42 AM

Cotton is one success of Zambia’s turn towards a market economy and offers a powerful tool for poverty reduction. Until recently, the industry had been dominated by the foreign-owned private sector that dictated prices and marketing arrangements for...

TPO Awards: Excellence in trade

10/25/2011 4:53:34 AM

The 2010 TPO Network Awards recognized excellence in export development initiatives by trade promotion and support organizations to boost export performance.Sponsored by the International Trade Centre (ITC), the biennial TPO Network Awards aim to support...

Exploratory project on deepening and broadening ITC and CDE relationship

10/19/2011 9:15:51 AM

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ITC provides access in four ways to bolster trade

06/30/2011 10:46:00 AM

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...

Global Value Chains

06/28/2011 10:02:00 AM

With the need for countries to see job creation and the regeneration of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), it is increasingly necessary for TSIs to focus on better positioning companies within global supply and production chains through capacity building...

Strengthening the pineapple export value chain in selected West African countires

01/17/2011 6:38:46 AM

ITC project aimed at strengthening the cooperation between trade support institutions in the region.

Comesa regional trade information networks

01/17/2011 6:13:33 AM

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ECCAS Regional trade information networks

01/17/2011 6:10:34 AM

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ECOWAS Regional trade information networks

01/17/2011 5:19:20 AM

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New handbook aims to enhance export capability of developing countries

01/11/2011 2:33:26 AM

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...

Project de promotion des exportations tunisiennes (en)

12/08/2010 4:17:39 AM

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PACT 2 - ECCAS Regional Private Sector Apex Bodies for Public-Private Dialogue

12/07/2010 11:38:42 AM

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Malaysia - GLOBINMED business information on traditional and complementary medicine

12/07/2010 10:25:58 AM

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South East Asia - Pilot for a regional SME finance and knowledge centre

12/06/2010 11:42:14 AM

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