Digital and Trade: A path to better market opportunities and employment creation

IOE virtual dialogue dedicated to digital and trade on 28 February (13:30-15:00 CET).

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Trade is a driver for competition, productivity, and innovation and allows societies and businesses to take advantage of lower prices, better products and services and increased choices. Trade and market openness have been drivers for better economic performance, job creation and societal progress worldwide. Global trade has contributed to job creation in developed and developing economies and has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on employment, the current challenges confronting trade underline the need for international cooperation, effective multilateralism, and robust investment frameworks to enable enterprises to create more and better jobs.Business needs to increase its support for a global system of rules-based free trade in general and the WTO in particular, as well speak up for national frameworks conducive to harnessing the employment and welfare benefits of trade. 

This high-level event on digital and trade brings together UNCTAD, ITU, ILO, BusinessMed and Business at OECD leaders.

The conference is an opportunity to share views, experiences and, more importantly, to identify critical action from relevant stakeholders on how to maximise economic growth and employment creation around the world by shaping an enabling global environment for trade enabled by technology.