How to ensure women's economic inclusion, because economies will not thrive unless we do. This issue stretches all the way from the number of women in Davos and the glass ceiling in the developed world, to helping poor women in the developing world set up their own businesses and survive. (..) The World Food Programme has found that when girls and women earn income, they reinvest 90% of the money in their families. For men, that figure is more like 30% to 40%. Davos: big questions … [Read more...]
Davos: big questions from top delegates to the World Economic Forum
January 26, 2012 by Team Celebration
Filed Under: AFRICA, ASIA, CENTRAL AMERICA, EURASIA, EUROPE, FEATURED, MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AMERICA, OCEANIA, SOUTH AMERICA, WORLD ISSUES Tagged With: Barbara Stocking, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Cherie Blair, DAVOS, equal partners, Helen Wong, HSBC China, Infosys, OXFAM, SD Shibulal, The World Food Programme, WFP, world forum