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Not Strictly Business: Improving Women's Entrepreneurship Through Soft-Skills Training and Engagement of Men
Women's business-ownership in the small and growing business (SGB) sector is essential to global economic growth. Women's economic participation and investment have an exponential impact on family and community well-being. To unleash the power of women-led business for contributing to economic growth, barriers and challenges that women face must be addressed.
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Different conflict, same crisis
The vast majority of refugees and asylum seekers are hosted by poorer countries and almost four million have been welcomed by countries which themselves have experienced armed violence or are in conflict.
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Accountability and ownership: The role of aid in a post-2015 world
Despite substantial development progress globally since 1996, hundreds of millions of people still live in extreme poverty.
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Children alone: Pulled from the sea, fallen by the wayside
Alone, confused and scared. Their rights curbed and hopes crushed. This is the state of far too many children who make it across the Mediterranean to “safety”.
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Lake Chad's unseen crisis
In a little known part of the world called the Lake Chad Basin, a violent seven-year conflict originating in Nigeria is causing untold misery and suffering for millions of people.
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A Poor Welcome from the World’s Wealthy
The six wealthiest nations host less than nine percent of the world’s refugees while poorer countries shoulder most of the responsibility. The world's richest countries can and should do much more to help the world’s most vulnerable people who have fled their homes because of violence and conflict.
