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How The Global Fund for Ecommerce Is Helping Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries Enter The Digital Era
By bringing together public- and private-sector support for digital trade, the Global Fund for Ecommerce could help developing country entrepreneurs go global.
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Kati Suominen: 3 Ways to Navigate the Ambiguity of Growth
Amid global economic uncertainty, here are three levers for topline growth.
Not a day goes by without news about a slowdown in the world economy. Yet paradoxically, a recent Pricewaterhouse survey revealed that while 70 percent of global executives said it is more difficult to find profitable growth opportunities now than 10 years ago, 74 percent also said there are more profitable growth opportunities now a decade ago.
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Kati Suominen: Next Big Roadblock to Trade — Congested Cities
Spending on trade facilitation needs to focus on megacities.
As corporations have built giant global supply chains around the world, governments have done their share, reducing tariffs and other trade barriers impeding market access of goods and services. Although the implementation of the WTO’s historic Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) will significantly help undo bottlenecks at national borders — promising to free up more than $1 trillion in global GDP — a growing challenge in the movement of trade remains: cities.
Kati Suominen: The Seoul Consensus
The world needs a new policy agenda to unleash the power of the digital economy.
Trading Up: Being Small and Going Global
The costs of doing international business have never been as low; the opportunity never so great.
