Helping Women Improve Export Businesses

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Research shows that women owned enterprises in the Caribbean are concentrated in saturated sectors making it more difficult for them to grow.  We-Xport (Women Empowered through Export) is designed to strengthen and support women owned businesses to increase their ability to access financing, and, well, to export.

We-Xport is helping women improve export businesses.  Sounds similar to what WEGG is doing in the USA.

Western Hemisphere Will Recover Faster Than Advanced Economies Despite Global Turmoil

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Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to emerge from the financial crisis earlier than the advanced economies, according to the latest Regional Economic Outlook: Western Hemisphere report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Expect growth the second part of 2009. While growth in advanced economies may not turn positive until the middle of 2010.

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