http://cfi-blog.org/2012/03/08/congratulations-its-international-womens-day/ Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:01:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cfi-blog.org/2012/03/08/congratulations-its-international-womens-day/#comment-3053 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:27:00 +0000 http://centerforfinancialinclusionblog.wordpress.com/?p=5393#comment-3053 Rosita, thanks for this post. At the International Women’s Day celebration at the United Nations, Thomas Stelzer of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs commented on the impact of Millennium Development Goal #3: Promote gender equality and empower women. He mentioned that the UN has found that this has the strongest multiplier efffect on the other MDGs. It seems that financial citizenship can have a strong multiplier effect as well, making financial citizenship for women doubly powerful as a multiplier.

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