Speech at the 2017 SHE-ERA Conference

Kim, Jim Yong

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS;    FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION;    WOMEN IN LABOR FORCE;    WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS;    ACCESS TO FINANCE;   

RP-ID  :  129811

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, emphasized that the Group sees advancement of women as critical to achieving the ending of extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. He discussed the need to overcome constraints faced by women. He discussed a variety of World Bank Group projects helping women entrepreneurs as well as raising women’s labor force participation and productivity.