“Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies” WorldHelpingGrowthTechnologyEconomyEconomicMissingEasierPercentAccountsFinancialPhonesAccessSignificantFinanceEmpoweringPortionsContinentsMobileEmpowering WomenEconomic GrowthPoorestBank AccountsMobile PhonesMissing OutFinancial ServicesAfrican Women Author:Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
“People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers at the top of (those) industries, they don't vary very much. I think in finance, women hold 19 percent of the top jobs, and women are 21 percent of the leaders in nonprofits.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksJobsCertainCultureNumbersLeaderStreetsWallIndustryPercentAssumingGenderFinanceVaryNonprofits Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“There's a lot of research on the shift in who deals with money when families get in trouble. In good times, husbands handle the family's finances about 80 percent of the time. But when times turn sour and families start dealing with creditors and managing unpayable bills, women take more active roles.” TurnsDealsRolesTroubleHusbandResearchPercentBillsActiveHandleFinanceGood TimesSourCreditors Author:Elizabeth Warren
“If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.” IfsYearsCountryGrowsPoorHalfTalkingMoralPercentFemaleArgumentPopulationArguingFinanceFasterMinistersHarnessPoor Countries Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“The fact that China has about seven percent arable land, means that she’s always going to be looking for places that have more arable lands to finance or to provide food stuffs.” MeanFactsStuffLandPercentSevenChinaFinance Author:Dambisa Moyo
“Our lives are now in a telephone, all our data, all our finances, all our personal information, and so it's proper that we have some constraints on that. But it's not going to be 100 percent. If it is 100 percent, then we're not going to be able to protect ourselves and our societies from some people who are trying to hurt us.” PeopleIfsTryingAbleHurtOur LivesInformationProtectPercentFinanceDataOur SocietyTelephonesConstraintsPersonal Information Author:Barack Obama
“The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.” BehaviorNewsPercentFinanceGood NewsRocketsPersonal FinanceRocket Science Author:Dave Ramsey