World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick joined ministers from Germany, Egypt, Sweden, Denmark and Liberia to take stock of the status of women in developing countries on the eve of the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings.
Zoellick announced several measures the World Bank Group plans to take to boost women’s empowerment at a seminar on ways to bridge gender gaps. A new book, Doing Business: Women in Africa, was also released.
Denmark brought its campaign to raise the profile of the third Millennium Development Goal—gender equality and empowerment of women by 2015—as part of an effort to build support for gender equality before a September 25 United Nations High Level MDG summit.
Zoellick, along with the German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, accepted the MDG3 torch and Denmark’s challenge to “do something more” to promote women’s economic empowerment.
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