How start-up kits help refugees launch their own enterprises..

Through collaboration across the cotton supply chain, the Better Cotton initiative is helping develop a more resilient sector, writes Ruchira Joshi...

Upholding compliance with labour standards in the garment industry means safer and better jobs, writes Dan Rees...

ITC is helping connect India with East African markets. That’s a win-win solution for traders on both sides of the Indian Ocean, writes Susanna Pak..

International Trade Forum talks fashion and development with Italian-Haitian designer Stella Jean on who she made the leap from catwalk to drawing boardTrade Forum: You started off as a model before deciding to design clothes and accessories yourself......

Emerging from decades of international isolation, Myanmar is embarking upon a new chapter in its history led by political and economic reforms. According to U Pwint San, the Southeast Asian country’s Deputy Minister of Commerce, it is trade that is moving.....

Thanks to ITC’s Trade Support and Regional Integration Programme for the Côte d’Ivoire (PACIR), 10 companies from the West African country held meetings with professional buyers and sold their products in Paris last summer...

The Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF), the only Aid for Trade programme exclusively dedicated to LDCs, lifts people out of poverty and puts communities on a path towards sustainable development, writes EIF Executive Secretariat Ratnaka Radhika Ri...

Thanks to international partners such as ITC, Peru’s exports are now thriving, writes Magali Silva..

ITC’s Ethical Fashion Initiative is bringing the energy and creativity of Ghana’s budding designers to the fore...

Resources on trade and export development for exporters, trade support institutions and policymakers..

Connecting microproducers with the international fashion industry to build self-respect and better lives..

The relationship between trade and gender has been hotly debated. Some say that globalization has excluded or impoverished women, causing disproportionate job losses due to the influx of foreign goods into domestic markets. Others argue that increased.....

The story of Art Atlas Peru is proof that shrewd business and a commitment to social welfare can go hand in hand. Art Atlas Peru is an ecological and socially driven enterprise that produces sweaters and cardigans from the highest quality natural fibres,.....

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.....

When I opened the 31st formal, and final, Working Party on the Accession of the Russian Federation to the WTO, jubilation and excitement were in the air. It was among the most eagerly awaited events at the WTO, bringing to a close 18 years of talks between.....

Resources on trade and export development for exporters, trade support institutions and policymakersCOTTON AND CLIMATE CHANGE:  Impacts and options to mitigate and adaptCotton production is both a contributor to and a ‘victim’ of climate.....

Increasingly, as European manufacturers face fierce competition from new Asian sources, suppliers are looked to as sources of competitive advantage. This article discusses the strategic role that differentiated purchasing and supply management represents.....

Africa has traditionally been an important cotton production base. Before the textiles and clothing quota phase-out, cotton markets were mainly in Europe. Today almost 80% of world cotton fibre is processed into yarn in Asia. In contrast, fibre transformation rates in Africa are at a historic low. Thus, on average, 83% of sub-Saharan African cotton is exported as lint, almost exclusively through international merchants to Asia...

Arequipa, Peru's second most industrialized city and commercial hub, supplies 85% of the world's alpaca fibre. Recognizing the export potential of women entrepreneurs in the Arequipa alpaca textile and clothing sector, ITC - together with the Peruvian Export and Tourism Promotion Commission (PROMPERU) - developed a project to strengthen their capacity to penetrate international markets more competitively. The project approach focused on three key areas: design and product development; market access; and business development and marketing strategies...

Africa is emerging as an attractive investment destination and a key market for goods and services. Southern Africa, in particular, has changed significantly in the past decade showing a reduction in levels of indebtedness, an increase in the number of politically stable and democratic countries and solid measures to curb corruption...