Trading Up: Being Small and Going Global
As the global economy rebounds, companies around the world are seeking growth through exports. Only the next generation of exporters will not be companies that have matured in the domestic market, but...
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Kati Suominen: Rise of the Re-Invention Economy
As automation and computerization expand, anxiety about jobs is at a fever pitch. Some say computers will displace a vast array of human work. Many others argue it polarizes the labor market: in a...
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Kati Suominen: Boosting Small Business Lending — Look to the U.K.
After a recent public consultation with the business community and financial services industry, the U.K. government has decided to enact a law that requires large lenders to share information with...
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Kati Suominen: The Seoul Consensus
The world needs a new policy agenda to unleash the power of the digital economy. The world economy is flailing, with growth expected to slow to the weakest pace since the 2008-09 crisis. Growth of...
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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...
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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...
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How The Global Fund for Ecommerce Is Helping Entrepreneurs in Developing...
By bringing together public- and private-sector support for digital trade, the Global Fund for Ecommerce could help developing country entrepreneurs go global. Ecommerce has emerged as a powerful...
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Let’s Make Small Go Big: Financing The Engines Of Growth
From the Brink: As part of a regular series featuring content from BRINK, Kati Suominen discusses the need to focus on the gap in growth capital — not just trade finance — for small and mid-size...
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Here’s What We Really Should Be Debating When It Comes To Trade
Of American micro and small businesses that sell on eBay, 97 percent export. Small online sellers are the new face of world trade. Export credit agencies must learn to support them, writes Kati...
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4 Ways To Turbocharge Developing Digital Economies
Only 15 percent of people in least developed countries have mobile broadband, as opposed to 90 percent of advanced country citizens. How can all nations and entrepreneurs take advantage of the digital...
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