Arancha Gonzalez Quotes
Responsive governments committed to improving the broader trade facilitation and business environment can help companies of all sizes by improving infrastructure: roads, transportation, ports, information and communication technology, and electricity.
This has been a difference between England and the United States. The former has always been much more active in promoting business and industry abroad—even forming Government chartered companies for the purpose. In America, the major responsibility has been that of the private companies. When the Government has aided a particular company in an industry, other companies ask why that company and not mone? Other industries argue that if you help sell airplanes who not lawnmowers or dresses.
This section of the message was all about the Erie Canal that was under construction. Note that unlike today, where interest in public works and development is so localized, Clinton was extolling the virtue of developing the economy of the region and the nation. The money was all New York State money. The Federal Government would not fund the Erie Canal as they did not believe it was technically feasible to construct. See {624484} . Patriotism had a different meaning then.
María Aránzazu "Arancha" González Laya is a Spanish lawyer and former assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Executive Director of the International Trade Centre, a joint agency of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. She was appointed to this position in August 2013 and until January 2020.