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We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.
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Desirable
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In most negotiations, you can't attribute success or failure in negotiations to one side.
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Negotiations
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We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.
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Backwards
Sleeves
Forward
Heads
Raise
We Cannot
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Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.
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Contagious
Opening
Spark
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I believe that trade is essential for economic growth and development around the world, but I also believe that trade is imperfect.
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Economic Growth
Imperfect
Believe I Believe Growth
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Each blockage is a blockage. Each impasse is an impasse. You have to find a solution; there is no recipe that fits each one of them.
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Impasse
Each One
Fits
Recipe
Solution
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Just having the economy picking up doesn't mean that we will get through or that we will turn the chapter on many of the problems that we see ahead of us.
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Chapter
Picking
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The best thing we can do to secure the future of the global system, trading system, is to redouble the efforts to improve the system, to reform the system.
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Secure
Trading
Efforts
Global
System
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Trade is not the cause for unemployment. In fact, the biggest drivers for unemployment are innovation and increased productivity. It has nothing to do with trade.
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Drivers
Innovation
Productivity
Unemployment
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My job is to prioritize multi-lateralism, and that of course interests Brazil, which is a global player. I'm representing 159 members, and one of them happens to be Brazil.
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Brazil
Members
Prioritize
Representing
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Making strong infrastructural reforms, particularly in the area of social security, that's not an appealing prospect for any country or for any political structure. But that's a reality.
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Social Security
Appealing
Reforms
Prospect
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At the WTO, it's never a general surgery. It's always a very specific, clinical, precise surgery - and you can't miss the target. If you miss the target, you kill the patient. It's as simple as that.
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Patient
Precise
Simple
Surgery
Target
General
Miss
Clinical
Specific
Wto
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In an era of global value chains, worldwide sourcing and the never-ending search for new markets, we must be careful to avoid the proliferation of regional standards. A multilateral approach holds wider benefits for more actors.
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Be Careful
Benefits
Chains
Never Ending
Proliferation
Standards
Avoid
Holds
Multilateral
Regional
Search
Wider
Worldwide
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It's not compatible to expect multilateralism to work and, at the same time, to expect to walk out with everything you wanted. This is a recipe for failure. If we prize the system, we have to come knowing that we will need to make compromises. Sometimes painful compromises.
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Compatible
Prize
Time Work Failure
Compromises
Work Time Failure
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I think educational systems have to be more nimble, have to be more adapted to today's realities where students can go in different directions and professionalize even faster. Constant retraining and reskilling and upskilling, whatever you want to call it, of the workforce.
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Adapted
Constant
Different Directions
Educational
Faster
Nimble
Workforce
Directions
Realities
Systems
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New technologies, innovative management, higher productivity, displacements in the labour market, increased migration - these are all provoking major economic, social, and political shifts. These shifts need to be better understood if we are to address them in a positive and effective manner.
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Higher
Innovative
Labour
Management
Migration
Productivity
Provoking
Understood
Effective
Increased
Major
New Technologies
Shifts
Technologies
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I think what helps me is that delegations of all sizes - the small, the medium, the large, the largest - they all have seen me in action. They all have seen me unlocking blockages, unlocking impasses for several years now, and they all know that... I can bring a constructive mood to the table.
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Constructive
Mood
Unlocking
Largest
Medium
Several
Sizes
Table
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One thinks that one is winning when we slap tariffs or introduce barriers to imports from another country, and we think we win. But you lose when you export because the other countries are going to raise tariffs as well. They're going to introduce barriers as well. So you win with one hand and you lose with the other.
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Barriers
Imports
Other Countries
Slap
Export
Introduce
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