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Want to add trillions to the global economy? Back female founders
By Sarah Shearman LONDON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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ushosh123
Are you asking me to invest my time and resource simply based on one's gender?
kibousha
That's because in these countries, it's either start your own business or stay dirt poor all your life, no man to rely upon, no government to rely upon.
Andrew Crisp
And the women in these countries do it without Government handouts, why doesn't the Cherie Blair Foundation give grants to these women who want to start a business.
And there it is - when men start a business they take on the whole risk because they do it with bank loans, maxing out their credit cards, or borrowing from their families and friends while these womens organisations want the taxpayer to take the risk through Government handouts.