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Yes to India on Supporting Women-Owned Businesses

India-based Yes Bank (private sector) has received $150 million funding from the US government and Wells Fargo to increase lending to support women entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises in India.

This is the third round of funding to the bank as part of arrangement with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) – the US government development finance institution – and Wells Fargo.

An estimated three million women-owned businesses in India employ over eight million people. However, only about a quarter of them are able to get the finance they need to grow and create jobs.

Hopefully, this will drive future economic growth and job creation in India for women entrepreneurs.

Investing in Women-Owned Businesses Will Enhance Africa’s Productivity

Published June 25, 2017 Barriers to trade , Country specific , Economic growth , Education , Equality , Gender challenges Leave a Comment
Tags: Africa, boost economic growth, enhance Africa's productivity, women's empowerment, women-owned businesses

It is the objective of Synergy Systems Consults (UK) Limited, a company that specialises in promoting and identifying partnership and investment opportunities within Africa, to influence dynamic changes in terms of exporting international expertise that will enhance productivity in Africa. For example, the Association of Certified Protocol Practitioners in Nigeria (ACPPN) is a non-profit and non-governmental organization aimed at promoting and raising the standards of protocol practice in Nigeria and sharing best practices globally.

Another initiative is the empowerment of women, which has a great potential to boost economic growth and facilitate the goal of an inclusive sustainable development throughout Africa. Social, cultural, legal and gender specific barriers tend to deprive women of engaging in specific industry supply chains. There is a need to promote the successes and transformative framework for women that will eliminate barriers and build stronger economies.

Investing in women-owned business and assimilating them into corporate supply chains can also contribute significantly to the world’s economy. Today’s economy records less than one per cent of spending by large businesses on suppliers as produced by women-owned business, generating new employment opportunities and so on.

To strengthen competitiveness, a country must focus on women’s empowerment to achieve an innovative and growth-oriented environment.

3 Reasons to Support Nigerian Women in Agriculture

Published April 29, 2017 Country specific , Economic growth , Exporting Leave a Comment
Tags: boosting exports, economic empowerment, entrepreneurial investment, female farmers, Nigerian women in agriculture, women farmers export

Supporting the food sector, agro-allied businesses and specifically women farmers, boosts the national economy, increases national food supply and exports, empowers women and provides healthier food choices for our families.

In Nigeria, they prefer to buy locally; thereby, enhancing their food security and local consumption. Also by supporting the local female farmers in Nigeria, we are directly:

Powering entrepreneurial investment and exports.
Supporting women-owned businesses.
Helping to put money back into her [a woman’s] household that will feed her children.

As the article below states:

Dried fruits and foods such as plaintain chips can be processed in different ways and sold for economic gains for the farmer, the processor, the exporter and the nation as a whole. All of these are more than sufficient reasons why women should be aggressively and deliberately positioned for economic empowerment.

Women Entrepreneurs Need Access to International Markets to GROW

Published October 2, 2016 Economic growth , Education , Gender challenges , global women entrepreneurs Leave a Comment
Tags: access to international markets, international markets, ten things candidates need to know, WIPP, women entrepreneurs, women impacting public policy

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Our Coalition Partner, Women Impacting Public Policy, talks about ten things our U.S. presidential candidates need to know about women entrepreneurs. We could not agree more with one of their points:

Women business owners seek markets beyond US borders. With 95% of consumers living outside of the U.S. representing 2/3 of the world’s purchasing power, women’s growth must be fueled by access to international markets. Strengthening the existing support of the Federal government for small firms should complement non-profit and private export assistance to small businesses. Our government must continue its efforts strengthening intellectual property (IP) rights and protections at home and abroad to encourage more entrepreneurship and the global expansion of women-owned firms.

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The US Empowers Women Entrepreneurs in Africa

Published September 24, 2016 Country specific , Economic growth , Education Leave a Comment
Tags: Africa, AWEP, Chigedze Chinyepi, empowers women entrepreneurs, Maun, USAID

U.S Ambassador to Botswana, Earl Miller

The African Women Entrepreneurship Program (AWEP) in partnership with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provides professional networking business development and trade capacity building system of opportunities for networks, which will assist female entrepreneurs across sub-Saharan Africa in relation to their businesses. In Africa, women are the backbone of communities and the country’s greatest potential to unlocking economic growth as they provide the majority of labor with the least amount of resources.

For her part AWEP chairperson, Chigedze Chinyepi encouraged women in businesses to take advantage of the programme in order to develop their businesses and mindset.

The partnership is expected to bring positive results in changing lives and businesses of women entrepreneurs in Maun and the surrounding areas.

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Emirati Women Reaching Higher Levels of Excellence

Published June 18, 2016 Country specific , Economic growth , Exhibitions , global women entrepreneurs Leave a Comment
Tags: Emirati women, Emirati youth, higher levels of excellence, successful business projects

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The Emirati youth are establishing small and medium businesses, which contribute highly in developing the economic and social sector of the nation. Many are thinking broadly and away from formal employment.

Ameera Binkaram, Deputy Chairperson of Nama and Chairperson of Sharjah Business Women Council (SBWC), stated, during the recent 1020 Exhibition for entrepreneurs:

Female entrepreneurs had proven, over the years, that they were well-qualified to manage successful business projects. “Today, we witness an important shift to a level of management based on innovation, and we expect that Emirati women will reach higher levels of excellence,” she said.

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How to Add $12 Trillion to Global Growth. Advance Women.

Published April 23, 2016 Economic growth , Equality , Gender challenges , global women entrepreneurs Leave a Comment
Tags: add $12 trillion, advance women, global growth, McKinsey & Company, power of parity

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The folks at McKinsey & Company have the global growth thing figured out. A McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report (September 2015), The power of parity: How advancing women’s equality can add $12 trillion to global growth, finds that $12 trillion could be added to global GDP by 2025 by advancing women’s equality. All sectors — public, private, and social sectors — need to act to close gender gaps in work and society.

Gender inequality is not only a pressing moral and social issue but also a critical economic challenge. If women—who account for half the world’s working-age population—do not achieve their full economic potential, the global economy will suffer.

Read the report: The power of parity: How advancing women’s equality can add $12 trillion to global growth

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Uplifting Women Worldwide Economically

Published April 10, 2016 Country specific , Economic growth , global women entrepreneurs , Poverty (tackling it) Leave a Comment
Tags: FICCI Ladies Organisation, FLO, India, socio-economic uplift, uplifting women worldwide

New Delhi, India Chief Minister Mukul Sangma has a desire to “desire to partner with FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) to enhance the socio-economic position of women in the matrilineal state.”

He also added that:

… promoting woman entrepreneurship is crucial in the fight against poverty and felt for the need to have access to financial resources, a legal framework of non-discriminatory regime and a woman friendly economic system for women entrepreneurs.

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Women Entrepreneurs GROW Global

Archive for the 'Economic growth' Category

Yes to India on Supporting Women-Owned Businesses

Investing in Women-Owned Businesses Will Enhance Africa’s Productivity

3 Reasons to Support Nigerian Women in Agriculture

Women Entrepreneurs Need Access to International Markets to GROW

The US Empowers Women Entrepreneurs in Africa

Emirati Women Reaching Higher Levels of Excellence

How to Add $12 Trillion to Global Growth. Advance Women.

Uplifting Women Worldwide Economically

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