| Performance-based incentives boost growth of women-owned businesses |
| By Elizabeth MacBride |
| Despite progress in many areas, only about one in four businesses globally is owned by a woman – a number that has remained stagnant for two decades according to gender-disaggregated data from the World Bank. This inequality is a human rights issue, an economic drag and a constraint on innovation. Read the full commentary → |
Why the Gulf is a region in bloom
By Karine Kheirallah
The Gulf Cooperation Council region, encompassing Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman, is undergoing a transformation. Historically tied to energy prices, the region is now diversifying its economies and enhancing its attractiveness for domestic and international investors.
MEETINGS
Latin America sovereign debt outlook
Thursday 20 February, Virtual panel
OMFIF’s annual outlook for the Latin American sovereign bond market returns, bringing together sovereign debt management heads with senior portfolio managers in the region to discuss funding conditions for the year ahead.
ON DEMAND
Turning women’s entrepreneurial potential into economic opportunity
Wendy Teleki, head of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative at the World Bank, joins Arunima Sharan, senior economist at OMFIF’s Economic and Monetary Policy Institute, to discuss how the WE Finance Code is tackling the $1.7tn financing gap facing women entrepreneurs.
LATEST REPORT
Gold and the new world disorder
Building on OMFIF’s long-run analysis on the ‘Seven Ages of Gold’, this report, in partnership with Commodity Discovery Fund and GoldRepublic, explores new developments in central bank gold policies.
