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What is so amazing is that Rachel Pavelka (featured in video) is 13 years young and runs Every Girlz Dream Jewelry Co.! She is the winner of The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education’s Import/Export Challenge and already knows the value of the emerging world market.
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Connect Ethiopia, an organization based in Dublin, Ireland, is assisting Ethiopian women entrepreneurs to penetrate the Irish market.
Read more here.
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According to PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the number of female company heads in Russia more than doubled compared to last year. And the number of women who own their own businesses is also growing. It appears Russian women are at the forefront when it comes to going into business on their own.
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In Women Entrepreneurs in the Global Economy (PDF file), Susanne Jalbert explores the current literature concerning women business owners, explores the role of women entrepreneurs in a global economy, examines how women’s business associations can strengthen women’s position in business and international trade,
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Roshan Vikas Foundation promotes community owned and managed financial institutions in urban areas, whose approach to urban poverty reduction are credit plus – Savings + Credit + Livelihood Development + Empowerment of Women.
Currently,
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According to the “Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2006-2007 National Entrepreneurial Assessment for the United States of America,” conducted by
Babson College and Baruch College, while U.S. entrepreneurship was 50% higher than the average of all other high-income (GEM) countries and equals the rate in low-and middle-income (GEM) countries,
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MBA alumni from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business help young women entrepreneurs in Sichuan (a province in Western China with its capital in Chengdu) generate new forms of livelihood to keep their small communities alive.
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News from PROFIT Xchange: Supporting and Celebrating Women in Business and brought to you by PROFIT: Your Guide to Business Success (December 1, 2008). While you are at it, check out Canadian Business online.
Despite a slowdown in Canada’s economy,
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Arzu, meaning hope in Dari, is nonprofit organization that provides sustainable income to Afghan women by sourcing and selling the rugs they weave.
Arzu helps weavers and their families break the cycle of poverty by providing them above market compensation and access to education and health care.
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