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		<title>Recap 2011: Important year for women across the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Fitri Bintang Timur The past year should not be taken lightly by women, since it was the year when female empowerment movements began to show the fruits of their respective struggles. For global politics, 2011 was marked by regime changes, global protests and examples that authoritarian regimes do not last forever. Not a single case [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbaforwomen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12578282&amp;post=452&amp;subd=gbaforwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Denmark and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative Announce Strategic Partnership</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) and the Government of Denmark today announced that they have formed a strategic public-private partnership to foster economic growth and job creation by matching qualified alumnae of Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women program, as well as qualified alumnae of select U.S. Department of State programs, with affordable sources of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbaforwomen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12578282&amp;post=449&amp;subd=gbaforwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NBAD Appoints Head of Ladies Private Banking</title>
		<link>http://gbaforwomen.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/nbad-appoints-head-of-ladies-private-banking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), the Number One Bank in the UAE, has appointed Dr. Mariah Khan as the Head of Private Banking&#8217;s Velvet Program, a special NBAD private banking service developed exclusively for high net worth women. In her new role, Dr. Khan would support NBAD&#8217;s expansion strategy for private banking and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbaforwomen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12578282&amp;post=447&amp;subd=gbaforwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women Drive Philanthropic Decisions in Wealthy Households, but Nonprofits Must Work for Their Trust, Finds Bank of America Merrill Lynch Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In nearly 90 percent of high net worth households, women are either the sole decision maker or an equal partner in decisions about charitable giving, according to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2011 Study of High Net Worth Women’s Philanthropy, released today. The power and influence of women in philanthropy may mean that some charitable organizations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbaforwomen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12578282&amp;post=445&amp;subd=gbaforwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Priya Misra on Fast Track at Bank of America</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chao Deng Priya Misra is hardly fazed by an industry dominated by men, and so far that has served her well on Wall Street. As head of Bank of America Merrill Lynch&#8217;s(BAC_) U.S. rates research, Misra, at 33 years old, is one of 10 senior women in macro research at the bank. Misra was ranked in the top [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbaforwomen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12578282&amp;post=440&amp;subd=gbaforwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small Business Loans Benefit 77,000 Women in Shaanxi</title>
		<link>http://gbaforwomen.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/small-business-loans-benefit-77000-women-in-shaanxi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The small business loans for which the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the People&#8217;s Bank of China and All-China Women&#8217;s Federation (ACWF) co-promulgated policies in 2009 have helped many women start their own businesses. Shaanxi Province started in 2010 to implement the policy of small business loans to women. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbaforwomen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12578282&amp;post=436&amp;subd=gbaforwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>High-earning women execs make attractive bank targets</title>
		<link>http://gbaforwomen.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/high-earning-women-execs-make-attractive-bank-targets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Scott Suttell Heather Ettinger, managing partner at Fairport Asset Management in Cleveland, is among the experts quoted in this Bloomberg story about banks&#8217; increasing efforts to court high-earning women executives as customers. The piece starts with a description of a Wells Fargo event called “Women Unscripted,” aimed at attracting and retaining women executives as clients. “Instead of focusing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbaforwomen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12578282&amp;post=442&amp;subd=gbaforwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100</title>
		<link>http://gbaforwomen.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/canadas-most-powerful-women-top-100/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Women’s Executive Network honours 100 women who are 2011′s top achiever’s – and leaders – in Canada’s private, public and not-for-profit sectors CORPORATE EXECUTIVES Scotiabank Corporate Executives Award Elyse Allan: CEO and president, GE Canada Elyse Allan started at GE Canada in 1984, moved to Ontario Hydro as a senior executive and then became CEO [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbaforwomen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12578282&amp;post=434&amp;subd=gbaforwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Microfinance Pushing the World’s Poorest Even Deeper Into Poverty?</title>
		<link>http://gbaforwomen.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/is-microfinance-pushing-the-worlds-poorest-even-deeper-into-poverty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sebastian Strangio In August, Bangladeshi police broke up a ring of human organ dealers operating in Joypurhat, a district in the north of the country. Investigators say that three local “brokers” preyed on a large pool of indebted farmers, who agreed to part with a kidney or a chunk of their liver for a couple thousand dollars—enough [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbaforwomen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12578282&amp;post=438&amp;subd=gbaforwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf banks seek to focus on SMEs, youth and women</title>
		<link>http://gbaforwomen.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/gulf-banks-seek-to-focus-on-smes-youth-and-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banks in the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) aim to boost lending to small andmedium enterprises (SMEs) and focus on youth and women to increase returns, an Accenture survey found. Lenders in the GCC, which includes Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, plan to cut their cost-to-income ratio to 35 per cent from anaverage 36 per cent to help increase [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbaforwomen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12578282&amp;post=427&amp;subd=gbaforwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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