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Women and Rural Employment - Fighting Poverty by Redefining Gender Roles
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About three quarters of the world’s poor live in rural areas. Among those, women constitute a particularly vulnerable, yet crucially important group for social and economic development. Investing in rural women is thus not only a moral imperative; it can also be a promising strategy to effectively fight poverty and hunger.

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Added by View user profileDenis Drechsler on September 11, 2009
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