Arancha Gonzalez Laya

Diplomat

1969-05-22

Spanish diplomat, lawyer, and public official who served as Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation from 2020 to 2021. She previously served as Executive Director of the International Trade Centre. She was born in 1969.

Quotes by Arancha Gonzalez Laya

Governments can't credibly claim to be concerned about stagnant growth and ageing workforces unless they are actively seeking to empower women economically. One way they can speed up progress towards gender-equal economic opportunity is to change laws that are holding women back.
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Exporting firms are more productive and pay higher wages than their domestically focused counterparts, especially in places like Sub-Saharan Africa. If firms manage to thrive in world markets, they tend to increase their productivity even more.
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The social and legal discrimination that relegates hundreds of women to subordinate or marginal economic roles has a huge aggregate cost.
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African pressure has led the E.U. to rethink part of its agricultural subsidy programme.
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We survey companies and ask them what the barriers to export and import are. Once we map these barriers, we sit down with the companies on one side and the government and regulatory agencies on the other and help them identify obstacles to trade and what has to be done to tackle them.
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While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries.
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The tourism industry has considerable potential to be a sustainability role model in its role as a buyer of goods and other services, from building materials and green construction standards to farm produce.
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E-commerce is a powerful means to connect the unconnected to global trade.
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Fully implementing the WTO trade facilitation agreement is one ingredient to reduce border delays and costs for traded merchandise.
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In their pursuit of growth and diversification, African economies should consider transforming the discourse from a focus on industrialisation to a broader one centred on value addition in agriculture, manufacturing, and services.
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Policy and business elites did not speak frankly about the unequal distribution of benefits from trade and failed to adequately accompany market-opening with good domestic policies to equip displaced workers to upskill, adjust, and share in the new opportunities being created.
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Inward-looking unilateral trade policies invite retaliation.
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China has proven that the wellbeing of citizens in a country doesn't necessarily contradict its engagement globally.
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It has been proven through studies by the World Bank and others that companies participating in international trade are more competitive.
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