The European Commission is an Institution independent of national governments. Its job is to represent and uphold the interests of the EU as a whole. It drafts proposals for new European laws, which it presents to the and the Council. It is also the EU’s executive arm – in other words, it is responsible for […]
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Empowering women through financial awareness and education
The potential implications of gender differences in financial literacy are far-reaching. On 1 March 2012, the OECD published a Working Paper on “Empowering Women Through Financial Awareness and Education“. Overview This working paper describes the findings of a review of the literature on gender differences in financial literacy with the aim to better understand their […]
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EMILY’S List
EMILY’s List members are dedicated to building a progressive America by electing pro-choice Democratic women to office. The organisation invests in women as candidates, as contributors, as campaign professionals, and as voters in order to bring about great change in the EMILY is an acronym that stands for “Early Money Is Like Yeast” Table of […]
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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 29 October 1938) is the current of . She served as Minister of Finance under President William R. Tolbert, Jr. from 1979 until the 1980 coup d’état, after which she left Liberia and held senior positions at various financial institutions. She placed a distant second in the Liberian presidential election, 1997. […]
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Effective Interventions to Address the Impact of HIV on School-Age Girls
With the progression of , the education sector has emerged as an important arena for preventing new infections and maintaining the HIV-free status of young people.Beasley, M, Valerio, A and Bundy, D (2008, p.ix) Education and HIV AIDS: A Sourcebook of HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Vol 2 Education-Sector-Wide Approaches. Washington DC: The World Bank. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EDUCATION/Resources/278200-1099079877269/547664-1099080042112/SourcebookofHIVAIDSvolume2.pdf (Accessed […]
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