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Diverse Pathways to Women’s Economic Empowerment: Stories from Three Local Leaders on International Women’s Day
We often think of women’s economic empowerment as focused on achieving material goals like income, credit and jobs. But true empowerment is much more complex, says Mara Bolis, Senior Advisor on Market Systems at Oxfam America. She explores three key conditions that enable economic empowerment, using examples from three women she met in a recent Oxfam visit to Cambodia – a fitting topic for discussion this International Women's Day.
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Press release: Innovation Works and Miller Center form partnership to create 250 social enterprises, 5,000 jobs in Baltimore
IW was formed to support Baltimore’s entrepreneurship development as a path to creating sustainable jobs, increasing average household incomes, and building neighborhood economies in underinvested communities. Miller Center, as the largest and most effective university-based social enterprise accelerator in the world, brings best practices and experience to the initiative.
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Forget SF and New York, the Future of Airbnb is in Kathmandu and Lima
Airbnb’s success in emerging markets is indicative of another global trend: It’s not just that travelers in Airbnb’s more mature markets are traveling more to countries in Africa or Asia, but that more people are traveling within large countries like India and China too.
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Microsoft to launch social entrepreneur accelerator programme in March
"Microsoft has always been an ardent enabler of the start-up ecosystem in the country," Anant Maheshwari, President, Microsoft India, said in a statement.
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Women own half the 1.3 million MSMEs in Kenya
According to the Kenya Bureau of Statistics, Kenya’s women contribute to 46.5 per cent of the labour force in a country where the poverty rate is at 34.8 per cent.
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Ethiopia’s reforms spark ray of hope for struggling businesses doing good
“The challenges in Ethiopia are big, but the opportunities are also big. Ethiopia is the second largest population in Africa ... and now it’s slowly opening up,” Davis told delegates at the Sankalp Africa Forum, an event in Nairobi bringing together investors, social businesses and policymakers.
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These 10 emerging markets will dominate the global economy in the next decade
Most of the top 10 fastest growing emerging market economies are in Asia, in line with expectations that the region is the future of the global economy.
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A stumbling block to growth trips up companies trying to do good
When established social enterprises do secure funding to support their growth it is not necessarily the end to their woes.
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