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Report: Sub-Saharan Africa 2nd worst region in mobile gender gap
"Mobile access and use has grown dramatically in LMICs [low- and middle-income countries] in recent years, but not equally. A gender gap in both mobile ownership and mobile Internet use persists across these markets, and is significantly wider in certain regions, particularly South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa," the report says.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Growth in ‘gender-smart’ investing helps sisters do it for themselves
The value of private funds with a gender focus reached $2.2 billion in the year to July 2018, 73 percent higher than the same period in 2016/17, according to a report by Wharton business school and consultancy Catalyst at Large.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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Viewpoint: Why investing in women and girls will take off in 2019
Bart Édes of Asian Development Bank writes about the growing body of evidence suggesting that empowering women is critical to boosting global prosperity.
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- Asia Pacific
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Diverse Pathways to Women’s Economic Empowerment: Stories from Three Local Leaders on International Women’s Day
We often think of women’s economic empowerment as focused on achieving material goals like income, credit and jobs. But true empowerment is much more complex, says Mara Bolis, Senior Advisor on Market Systems at Oxfam America. She explores three key conditions that enable economic empowerment, using examples from three women she met in a recent Oxfam visit to Cambodia – a fitting topic for discussion this International Women's Day.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Digital commerce will transform African economies, starting with cheaper phones
Growth could have a massive impact on African countries, with their young and increasingly urban populations. But most governments are not ready.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press release: VisionFund International’s Women’s Empowerment Fund Commits 2019 Funding to Armenia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Uganda and Vietnam
Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, VisionFund International (VisionFund), the microfinance arm of children’s charity World Vision, has pledged over $1.2 million in funding to support over 32,000 women in 2019 in Armenia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Vietnam from its Women’s Empowerment Fund, a fund established to empower women’s ability to improve their livelihoods and benefit their children.
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- Press release
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- Finance
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Press release: The PepsiCo Foundation Partners with CARE to Tackle Gender Inequality in Agriculture with an $18.2 Million Investment in She Feeds the World
Grant will provide resources and training to 5 million women farmers and their families worldwide to help them increase crop yields and income.
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- Agriculture
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Women own half the 1.3 million MSMEs in Kenya
According to the Kenya Bureau of Statistics, Kenya’s women contribute to 46.5 per cent of the labour force in a country where the poverty rate is at 34.8 per cent.
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- Entrepreneurship
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- emerging economy, entrepreneurship, gender gap, MSMEs, SMEs, Women
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