WEDF 2012: Plenary session participants hear how the rise of the middle class in emerging economies creates new demand for higher-value products and services.

Addressing ITC’s annual Joint Advisory Group (JAG) meeting, Ms. Patricia R. Francis, Executive Director of ITC, spoke about ITC’s focus on building partnerships with beneficiaries and other trade-related technical assistance agencies, and on developing innovations in delivering services in accordance with countries’ needs to the benefit of small-and medium-sized exporters...

Patricia Francis, Executive Director of ITC, today told the attendees of UNCTAD XIII that it is critical to ensure that developing and least developed countries are benefitting from global trade. Ms. Francis said during the General Debate that ITC is...

Exporters can be hampered in their success by numerous hurdles such as varying standards, regulations, subsidies and other requirements with which they need to comply. And often, these barriers are among the top challenges to export development. Experts, including ITC’s Director of the Division of Market Development Mr. Anders Aeroe, discussed the need for bringing to light the barriers and reducing them in UNCTAD’s panel discussion The Future International Agenda on Non-tariff Measures…

The League of Arab States (LAS) region could increase trade among its member states by 10% and create two million new jobs by removing obstacles to intra-regional trade, according to new research by ITC...

The economic empowerment of women is a critical factor to the achievement of development goals. That was the message from ITC’s Executive Director, Ms. Patricia Francis, during UNCTAD’s High-level Event on Women in Development on Monday 23 April, where panelists agreed that policies that support women in developing countries must be enacted...

GENEVA, 18 July 2011 – The African Development Bank (AfDB), the International Trade Centre (ITC), the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Bank, and in cooperation with the UN Statistics Division (UNSD), today launched the...