TXF talks to Makiko Toyoda, acting head of Global Trade Finance Program (GTFP) and Jessica Schnabel, global head, Banking on Women, Financial Institutions Group (FIG), the women who are spearheading the development of International Finance Corporations’s (IFC’s) latest initiative to raise access to trade finance for women-owned businesses to help them grow globally,
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We could not help but notice the tie-in to wegg® women concerning the recent movie “Maiden.” How so? The “Maiden” is based on a true story that goes like this:
An all-female crew in a virtually all-male sport challenges the open ocean,
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In the article, Unique Barriers Face Women-Owned Businesses, authors Maribel A. Dano-Luna (pictured left), Senior Researcher, and Rose Ann Camille (pictured right), Research Associate, Asian Institute of Management Rizalino S. Navarro Policy Center for Competitiveness, discuss the challenges women business owners face when exporting.
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by Laurel Delaney, President, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global (WEGG)
In a manifesto I authored in 2004, “Shaking Things Up. Making Things Happen,” I wrote, “In the future, there will be two kinds of enterprises: those that go global and those that die.” Companies should be going global,
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Michael Froman, former U.S. Trade Representative, had it right when he said it is important for women-owned businesses to be able to export their products because studies have found that women-owned firms that export not only earn more, but also employ more people and are,
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In follow up to our March 8 WEGGinar™ on “Regulations, Conventions, and Battles of the Spirit: The International Trade of Craft Spirits” with Dr. Sonat Birnecker Hart (pictured), President and co-founder of Chicago, Illinois-based KOVAL Distillery,
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Our first WEGG webinar, “Getting Started in Exporting: Ready Your Business for Growth” was a wonderful success. You can access the recording here.
Up next month on February 3rd from 10:00 a.m.
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Before the Internet, women had a difficult time getting access to markets and networking or finding like-minded individuals with whom they could end their isolation, share challenges, and gain access to strategic information. Now, however, there are hundreds of women-centric online community forums readily available and designed specifically for women business owners who desire to connect with women the world over,
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The timing has never been better for businesswomen to get out of their own backyards and transition from local, regional or niche-market players into global players. Here’s why.
Women Are Ready to Take on the World
The key: It is evident that through export activities,
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