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• Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.
• Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.
• If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you…
• We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
• What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the…
• I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.
• The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.
• A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere.
• Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women…
• No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.
• The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001…
• The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.

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