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Businesses are starting to understand what development experts have long known: investing in women pays dividends. Women are more likely than men to put their income back into their communities, driving illiteracy and mortality rates down and GDP up.
The Third Billion Campaign is being launched by La Pietra Coalition—an alliance including corporations, governments, and nonprofits—to enable 1 billion women to become members of the global economy by 2025. The campaign’s title comes from the notion that over the next decade, the impact of women will be at least as significant as that of China’s and India’s respective 1-billion-plus populations.
Why the Global Economy Needs Businesses to Invest in Women - The Daily Beast
The Third Billion Campaign is being launched by La Pietra Coalition—an alliance including corporations, governments, and nonprofits—to enable 1 billion women to become members of the global economy by 2025. The campaign’s title comes from the notion that over the next decade, the impact of women will be at least as significant as that of China’s and India’s respective 1-billion-plus populations.
Why the Global Economy Needs Businesses to Invest in Women - The Daily Beast