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IFC's Gender Program
invite you to a book launch featuring a recent publication
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| | Gender and Economic Growth in Tanzania
| | Creating Opportunities for Women
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| | The book examines legal, regulatory,
| | and administrative barriers that
| | constrain women in business and makes
| | the case for gender informed business
| | reform. The books makes a number of
| | recommendations for addressing gender
| | inequalities and removing obstacles to
| | women?s entrepreneurship. One
| | recommendation, on increasing women's
| | access to finance, has been already
| | addressed through an IFC $5 million
| | loan to Exim Bank in Tanzania, for
| | on-lending to women entrepreneurs. The
| | book is the result of a highly
| | participatory process and extensive
| | consultations with public and private
| | sector stakeholders, whose inputs
| | helped formulate the recommendations.
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| | The book is one of a series of such
| | assessments that have been carried out
| | also in Uganda, Kenya, and Ghana. The
| | event will provide an opportunity to
| | share experiences and lessons learned
| | with the process to-date, and will
| | feature key counterparts from each of
| | the four countries in which these
| | reports have been completed.
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| | We will also screen the documentary
| | "Gender Equality as Smart Economics."
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Thursday, November 8
12:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
Moderator
Amanda Ellis
Lead Gender Specialist, World Bank
Keynote
John Page
Chief Economist, World Bank Africa Region
Discussants
Maggie Kigozi
Executive Director, Uganda Investment Authority, Uganda
Bede Lyimo
Chief Executive Officer, Better Regulation Unit, Tanzania
Eva Muraya
CEO, Color Creations Ltd., Kenya
Marjorie Abdin
Managing Director, Jack & Jill Warehouse, Ghana
Marilou Uy
Sector Director, Finance and Private Sector Development, Africa
Region
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About the IFC's Gender Program
IFC is a social enterprise, fostering sustainable economic growth in
developing countries by financing private sector investment,
mobilizing capital in the international financial markets, and
providing advisory services to businesses and governments.
Supporting women in business is an important part of this effort. It
is also an integral part of the World Bank Group?s Gender Action
Plan.
For more information, visit: www.ifc.org/gender
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
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