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[email protected] cdcgroup.com Insight CDC is wholly owned by the UK Government What we’ve learnt about women’s economic empowerment @CDCGroup CDC Group plc Enabling women’s economic empowerment leads to faster economic growth. cdcgroup.com CDC is wholly owned by the UK Government @CDCGroup CDC Group plc Introduction or a woman to be economically empowered, she needs to have the resources and ability to succeed and the power to act on her decisions.1 Enabling women’s economic empowerment, We believe that by Fthrough participation in the labour force and greater inclusion in the economy, leads to faster economic growth. supporting economic In other words, excluding women is economically inefficient. empowerment, we can At the same time, it is well established that achieving gender equality improves developmental impact such as family also contribute to other health and education, and reinvestment into local economies. forms of women’s Enabling women’s As investors and businesses, we can influence women’s empowerment. economic empowerment through the decisions we make about directing resources, access to jobs, and the design of inclusive products and services. We believe that by empowerment, and said that we’d be looking for ways economic empowerment supporting economic empowerment, we can also contribute to create economic opportunity for women as business to other forms of women’s empowerment by improving a leaders, employees, suppliers, customers and community woman’s ability to make decisions that affect her life.