Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
When I became finance minister, they called me Okonjo-Wahala - or 'Trouble Woman.' It means 'I give you hell.' But I don't care what names they call me. I'm a fighter; I'm very focused on what I'm doing, and relentless… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side.… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So what did we try… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
The U.K. and the U.S. could not have been built today without Africa's aid. It is all the resources that were taken from Africa,… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do they refuse to use… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigerias growth and development. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
I'm trying to tell you that there's a new wave on the continent. A new wave of openness and democratization in which, since 2000,… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed, — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
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