Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do they refuse to use the same aid to build the same infrastructure in our countries?

Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.

Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies