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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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.
What a pantload. How do you even quantify that? The U.N. is a bad joke.
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.
Thanks......nice piece of history.
How come we never hear a report about gender inequality in places like Saudi Arabia?
Helen Clark...9 years as leftist New Zealand PM. Isn’t this white ahem lady being somewhat racist criticizing sub saharan Africa?
Because that would be islamophobic.
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