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December 5, 2017

United States
The Status of Women in the Economy

The connection between women’s economic empowerment has been proven to be critical to economic growth and stability, but the share of women in the labor force has stagnated for two decades and signif…

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Event by Lareina Yee, Thomas Nides, Heidi Crebo-Rediker, and Isobel Coleman Women and Foreign Policy Program

October 11, 2012

Global
Supporting Entrepreneurship: What Works in Developing Economies?

ISOBEL COLEMAN: (In progress from source) -- initiatives and opportunities, including, in some depth, microfinance. Last year our focus was really on the opportunities around mobile technology and d…

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Event by Mayra Buvinic, Markus Goldstein, Agnes Quisumbing, and Isobel Coleman

June 15, 2016

Global
Strength, Speed, Transparency: Improving UN Peace Operations for the 21st Century

Experts discuss how the UN can provide more rapid, efficient, and reliable support to peace operations, the challenges in reaching these goals, and ways the U.S. government is supporting this mission.

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Event by Isobel Coleman, Victoria Holt, Atul Khare, and Sarah Yager

April 6, 2011

Global
Women and Technology: The Opportunities of Mobile Banking

This meeting is part of the ExxonMobil Women and Development Roundtable Series, organized by CFR's Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative. ISOBEL COLEMAN:  Good afternoon, everyone.  Than…

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Event by Mary Ellen Iskenderian, Tamara Cook, and Isobel Coleman

May 28, 2014

South Africa
The Democratic Alternative: Democracy and Development in South Africa, India, and Brazil

Isobel Coleman hosts Ann Bernstein, executive director of the Centre for Development and Enterprise in South Africa, and John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies at the Cou…

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Event by Ann Bernstein, John Campbell, and Isobel Coleman