Galvanizing Global Small Businesses Worldwide By Supporting Women and Young Entrepreneurs

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Facing limited access to affordable finance, capacity-building support, partnership networks, and global markets, women and young entrepreneurs need help to overcome the numerous challenges that frequently stifle the growth of their businesses, confining many of them to informality or necessity entrepreneurship.

Learn more about how we can leave no one behind.

Invest In Your People and a Country Will Grow

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In the 2013 Human Development Report, the United Nations predicts that over the next two decades, economic and political power will shift away from Europe and North America.

The report projects that by 2020 the combined gross domestic products of Brazil, China and India will exceed the entire output of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain and the U.S. put together.

Power Shift Under Way As Middle Class Expands in Developing World