March 20, 2008
$100-Million Pledged to Educate Women
The investment firm Goldman SachsGroup and 16 universities worldwide have announced a plan to spend $100-million to provide business education to 10,000 women in developing countries.
The program, called 10,000 Women, hopes to spread good business practices to help poor countries in Africa and Asia improve their economies. The company says that it views women in developing countries as an underdeveloped resource because very few of them receive an education.
"We wanted to
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