Reminder: Gender and Economic Growth in Tanzania: Creating Opportunities for Women presented at the InfoShop on November 8 at 12:00 pm in J1-050

InfoShop & IFC's Gender Program
invite you to a book launch featuring a recent publication

Gender and Economic Growth in Tanzania Creating Opportunities for Women

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.

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.

We will also screen the documentary "Gender Equality as Smart Economics."

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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