Development and
Cooperation

Equal opportunity à la Wolfowitz

„What we are trying to do with the Gender Action Plan is to develop more concrete ways in which this basic idea that the whole of society benefits when everybody has equal access can be incorporated in more and more of the programmes that we actually do.“
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, Oslo, October 2006.

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Child marriage is a common phenomenon in poor countries: A 13-year-old girl from Mali with her daughter.

Manufacturing

Made in Chibombo

Women need access to finance: Women attend a micro finance collection in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Diversity

Women at work

Not many women are as successful as Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (right). She is the founder and Managing Director of India’s premier biotechnology company, Biocon Limited. In 2006, she and Bollywood star actor Shah Rukh Khan (l.) launched an innovative cancer drug.

Financial inclusion

Investing in women

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