We posted about this fabulous article on our sister site, The Global Small Business Blog. Women continue to embrace entrepreneurship and forge relationships across borders. Forming global partnerships is a way to expand internationally.
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Encouraged by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s policy of making women a key part of the country’s economic growth, state-affiliated financial institutions are strengthening their support for female entrepreneurs. This growth initiative is anticipated to accelerate.
In June, Keiko Yoshimoto, president of Royal Blue Tea Japan Co.
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According to a new report from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which tracks entrepreneurial activity in 67 countries, women lead in entrepreneurship in seven countries.
Women entrepreneurship varies widely around the world, however. In Zambia, for example, 40 percent of women are engaged in entrepreneurial activity.
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The Second Lady of the Republic of Ghana, Mrs Matilda Amissah-Arthur, has launched the Awesome Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) Magazine, a publication aimed at nurturing and motivating women entrepreneurs. The magazine is targeting aspiring and current female business owners between 20 and 60 years old.
AWE will be published once a year for women entrepreneurs,
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Eastern Cape businesswomen are on a mission through an Eastern Cape cooperative to crack into international markets. Thanks to the Department of Trade and Industry (the DTI), more than thirty-three business people are participating in in the 30th International Fair of Luanda Trade Exhibition popularly known as FILDA,
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Trust affects all of us and is an important lubricant for economic exchanges to take place in a productive manner. It is especially important in international business relationships, where, due to distance, you might not have an opportunity to meet an individual in person,
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Cherie Blair (pictured) has it right. She’s developed the Cherie Blair Foundation (2008) to help women build small and growing businesses in developing and emerging markets so that they can contribute to their economies and have a stronger voice in their societies.
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Economics, politics and international relations student Rosa Pellicer from the Enactus Society at Royal Holloway (University of London) won the ‘Outstanding Contribution Award’ for founding and leading a project in Anantapur in India, called Sustainable Empowerment for Women (S.E.W.).
What did S.E.W. team members do to win the award?
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Welcome newcomer Project Eve, a global community of women helping women started by co-founders Meridith Dennes and Kim Oksenberg.
“Project Eve is a global meeting place that connects women to the news, resources,
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Meet the new enterprising kid on the block: American DreamBuilder: The Women’s Business Creator, brought to us by Bluedrop Performance Learning, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. and Thunderbird School of Global Management.
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