Interesting post by Sarah Iqbal on gender over at the PSD Blog – The World Bank Group. She attempts to answer the complex question: Why don’t women rule the world?
Find out Sarah’s answer here.
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I think that one of the best things that we from the developed world can do for the poor is to help cultivate an entrepreneurial environment for them.
That’s what Moses Lee says over at the NextBillion.net in his entry Are the Poor Really Entrepreneurial?
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What does it take to make a successful female entrepreneur in the developing world? If any entity can come up with an answer, it is The World Bank and part of the solution is that women need a relatively effective way to save money.
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Meet the bold, the fearless and the restless (and that includes YOU!). Women-owned firms comprise forty percent of all firms in the United States, according to the Center for Women’s Business Research. They have implemented imaginative strategies to launch and expand their businesses,
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Saturday, at Davos, was devoted to bringing rights of women to the main stage — finally. Read more here. And catch The Girl Effect on the right sidebar of our blog under the “Take A Look”
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The 11th Global Businesswomen & Leaders Summit will be held March 8-9, 2009 in Dubai, UAE. This premier gathering, organized by Datamatix on the occasion of International Women’s Day, will witness the coming together of global businesswomen,
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Businessses see opportunity in emerging markets for women, especially women entrepreneurs. Read more here.
World Bank is involved too.
Posted by : Laurel Delaney
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One of our very own WEGG contributors, Steve King, is quoted in this U.S. News and World Report article, “Best Small Businesses To Start,” The article is authored by one of our favorite entrepreneurial reporters: Matthew Bandyk. Here’s the part on globalization:
Another trend is globalization.
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Here’s an open letter to President-elect Obama (and a few of the authors’ companies are featured in the right sidebar of WEGG):
We are calling on you to be the President who ushers in the time of women. Our vision of the future is one in which women and men are equal partners,
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Jane Hunter, Managing Director for New Zealand-based Hunter Wines, exports wine around the world including to Britain, Ireland, Switzerland, Denmark, Australia and the United States.
Ms. Hunter is breaking new ground with exports reaching Spain, Slovakia and the Ukraine,
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