Elevating the economic role of women through technical support and improved access to financial services will reap greater social benefits than giving funds to men - International Trade Centre (ITC) executive director Arancha González has said. “What we know is that women entrepreneurs reinvest 90% of their revenues into the community,” González said, listing education, nutrition, household expenditure, and caring for children and elderly people as social services that women buy with profits. If governments strove to give women a greater share of the $15tn public procurement industry, economic growth would be more evenly distributed in developing countries, González said. Read the whole article theguardian/global-development/2014/sep/30/female-entrepreneurs-engine-economic-growth
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:00:01 +0000
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