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    Full speed ahead: 5 ways to optimize women’s economic potential

    How can women be more involved in economies and how can global development actors ensure women's potential is harnessed effectively? We asked participants at a recent women's participation in economics conference to find out.

    By Sibylle Koenig // 19 June 2015

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    Given the lost economic potential of not sufficiently involving women in economies, “Why are our economies still running their engines at half speed?”

    This was the challenge from Valeria Della Rosa, senior manager for business advisory services at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: how to involve women in economies and how global development actors can ensure women’s potential is harnessed effectively.

    On the sidelines of the Union for the Mediterranean conference “Fostering Women’s Participation in Economic Life” in Barcelona, Spain last month, we heard a diverse range of views on how to best go about it.

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      Sibylle Koenig is a development consultant and policy adviser with 10 years of experience in managing, monitoring and evaluating international aid programs and grant schemes, as well as advocacy. She has worked for a variety of organizations, including the European Commission, U.N. and bilateral aid agencies and NGOs in Latin America (4 years) and Europe, with extensive work travel to Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Kenya, Botswana) and Asia (Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, India, South Korea).

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