Tag: Women Entrepreneurs
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Ghanaian women entrepreneurs honoured at maiden FEM-START Start-up Awards
The maiden edition of the FEM-START Start-up Awards has been held in Accra with a call on young women in Ghana to endeavour to venture into entrepreneurship. Addressing business women during the ceremony, the founder of FEM-START Africa, Marian Spier, said the rationale behind the initiative is to stimulate women entrepreneurship in Ghana to attract…
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NBSSI urges financial firms to empower SMEs before offerring credit
The Chief Executive Officer of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), Kosi Yankey Ayeh, has urged financial institutions that offer loans to Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, SMEs, to consider empowering them through skills development before offering them credit. She says this will provide a better guarantee for the capacity of the businesses…
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Ghana places second globally in countries with most women entrepreneurs
Ghana has placed second in the global ranking of countries with most women entrepreneurs according to the latest Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE). The annual Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE) which provides insights into the progress and achievements of women in business found that nearly 4 out of every 10 business owners in…
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Rebecca Akufo-Addo urges women entrepreneurs to take up challenging roles
First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo has called on Women Entrepreneurs to be bold to take up key challenging roles in the country. This, she says, will place women in key sector positions to be key players of the economy. While delivering her keynote address at the launch of the AGI-Women in Business which was on the…