Empowerment through trade: IFC and Ecobank on tackling the gender disparity in global trade

This finding, from the IFC’s whitepaper “Banking on Women Who Trade Across Borders”, speaks to the gender disparity that still exists in the international trade space, particularly in emerging markets.

To learn more about the challenges that women entrepreneurs face when trading across borders and some of the initiatives in place to offer support, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Makiko Toyoda, Global Head of the Global Trade Finance and Global Supply Chain Finance Programs at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and Tacko Baro Fall, Waemu Head Financial Institutions And International Organizations at Ecobank.

 

Read the article here:

https://www.tradefinanceglobal.com/posts/podcast-s2-e11-empowerment-through-trade-ifc-ecobank-tackling-gender-disparity-global-trade/