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View ResourceTrade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Customs Brokers in the Philippines
To identify the specific challenges that men and women face in cross-border trade and determine where further reforms can be made, the World Bank Group completed the Trade and Gender Study in the Philippines. Over 2,000 traders and customs brokers were interviewed.
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Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women Traders and Customs Brokers in Brazil
Given the critical role of women in helping to reduce poverty coupled with the importance of trade in linking businesses to global value chains, the World Bank Group completed the Trade and Gender Study in Brazil to identify the specific challenges that men and women-led firms face in cross-border trade and determine where further reforms can be made. Over 1,500 trade firms and 300 customs brokers were interviewed.
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Cross-Border Value Chain Development: A Rough Guide to Market Systems Development for Decent Work
This guide intends to help value chain practitioners to account for the added complexities arising from the cross-border nature of value chains, and understand the impactions on decent work such that they can magnify positive effects and minimise negative ones. The guide builds on the Guide to Value Chain Development for Decent Work and the ILO experience accumulated in market systems development projects.
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Export essentials: 10 steps to getting started in trade
Export readiness involves assessing whether a business has the capacity and resources to successfully sell a good or service internationally. The following tips from the Institute of Export & International Trade (IOE&IT) can help you start your export journey.
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Export essentials: how to make the most of preferential tariffs
This guide, from the Institute of Export & International Trade (IOE&IT), explains how trade agreements can help micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) identify potential export markets and provide them with access to preferable arrangements
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Export essentials: How to make the most of ecommerce platforms
This guide, from the Institute of Export & International Trade (IOE&IT), provides some tips on how small businesses can effectively use ecommerce platforms.
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Export essentials: building and maintaining a green supply chain
This guide from the Institute of Export & International Trade (IOE&IT) lays out some ways that MSMEs can begin to take stock of their supply chain and get a sense of how to reduce the carbon footprint of any trade they conduct.
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Export essentials: Incoterms and selling goods overseas
Anyone selling goods overseas will need to familiarise themselves with Incoterms and select the most appropriate arrangements for their business. In this article, Matt Vick, academy trade and customs specialist at the Institute of Export & International Trade (IOE&IT), outlines the key things to know.
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Exporting essentials: Customs classification and commodity codes
In this edition of the Institute of Export & International Trade (IOE&IT)series of trade explainers, the Daily Update sat down with Matt Vick, academy trade and customs specialist at the IOE&IT, to ask what someone needs to know about customs classification and commodity codes.
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World Bank Trade and Gender
The World Bank Group is working on many parallel paths towards strengthening existing knowledge on the relationship between trade and gender.
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) Trade and gender
OECD aims to support trade policy makers in thinking through how trade and trade policy can support gender empowerment.
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Mainstreaming Gender in Free Trade Agreements
This report presents recommendations to boost the participation of women in trade through free trade agreements.
