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Gender inequality costs sub-Saharan Africa $95 billion: UN
Associated Press ^ | Aug 28, 2016 9:39 AM EDT | Tom Odula

Posted on 08/28/2016 6:44:04 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Saharan Africa loses around $95 billion a year due to gender inequality, jeopardizing the continent’s efforts for economic growth, according to a U.N. report launched Sunday.

Deeply-rooted structural obstacles such as unequal distribution of resources and political power, combined with social institutions that sustain inequality are holding back African women, and the continent, said the Africa Human Development Report 2016 by U.N. Development Program.

If gender gaps are closed in labor markets, education and health, it will accelerate the eradication of poverty and hunger, said UNDP Administrator Helen Clark. The report was launched during the two-day Tokyo International Conference of African Development in Kenya. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: genderinequality; homosexualagenda; subsaharanafrica; un
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To: Olog-hai

Funny, I thought it was utterly corrupt governance, poor support for private property rights and failure to honor and uphold contract law that was holding them back.


21 posted on 08/28/2016 9:35:51 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Olog-hai

What a pantload. How do you even quantify that? The U.N. is a bad joke.


22 posted on 08/28/2016 9:38:33 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Liz
Joe Wilson, in the 90's, also had minerals trading interests and could be found conveniently posted to nations rich in Uranium deposits (Niger, Gabon, West coast of Equatorial Africa) very convenient for one so invested.

Unfortunately, Wilson could find no yellowcake trading even thouugh he was invested. Also convenient, as the yellowcake went to Iraq, and was found there AFTER the second war. Saddam's original stock of yellowcake was confiscated after the first (Kuwait) war.

Wilson again profiting from the destruction of American foreign policy.

Our man in Niger

Our Man in Niger (part 2)

23 posted on 08/28/2016 10:35:42 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Navy Patriot

Thanks......nice piece of history.


24 posted on 08/28/2016 12:20:08 PM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: Olog-hai

How come we never hear a report about gender inequality in places like Saudi Arabia?


25 posted on 08/28/2016 12:21:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai

Helen Clark...9 years as leftist New Zealand PM. Isn’t this white ahem lady being somewhat racist criticizing sub saharan Africa?


26 posted on 08/28/2016 12:30:10 PM PDT by xp38
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To: dfwgator

Because that would be islamophobic.


27 posted on 08/28/2016 12:34:35 PM PDT by xp38
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