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Tapping women’s entrepreneurship in Ghana

6 Sep 2012

Selling tomatoes at a marketplace in Accra, Ghana: Women face many hurdles in expanding their businesses beyond the “micro” level.Photograph: Alamy Images / Ulrich Doering

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