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View ResourceSpotlight on Cybersecurity
Spotlight on Cybersecurity is intended to provide Canadian exporters and small businesses with the background knowledge and tools necessary to protect their business against cyber threats. From understanding who commits cyber-crimes and their motives, to what can be done to prevent them, this short guide can help you to understand and employ cybersecurity measures.
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Beyond Trade: How deep trade agreements shape non-trade outcomes
A CEPR-World Bank eBook (Fernandes et al. 2023) brings together new research on the impact of trade agreements on a broad range of non-trade outcomes. These include diverse areas such as foreign direct investment (FDI), innovation, policy stability, labour standards, environmental quality, and political rights.
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Deep Trade Agreements
The data, research, and toolkit on deep trade agreements provided in this website will allow users to explore the new dimensions of integration across countries.
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Valuing services in trade: a toolkit for competitiveness diagnostics
The Toolkit provides a framework, guidelines, and set of practical tools to conduct a thorough analysis and diagnostic of trade competitiveness in the services sector with a methodology that sheds light on a country's ability both to export services and improve its export performance through policy change.
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Trade in services for development: Fostering sustainable growth and economic diversification
This publication — co-published by the WTO and the World Bank — underlines the contribution that trade and investment in services can make to economic growth and development and highlights, in particular, the importance of re-energizing international cooperation on services trade.
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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: getting started selling services overseas
Services account for almost 65% of global GDP, and there are just as many different elements to consider when exporting services as when trading goods. To help those running micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) understand what they need to know before starting a new relationship with an overseas customer, the Institute of Export & International Trade (IOE&IT) has produced this guide.
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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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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.
