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For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sheryl Sandberg and Mary
Beard, Women and Leadership is a powerful call to arms about the
lack of women at the top. 'Who better qualified to delve into this
topic?' Business Life _______________ Women make up less than 10
per cent of national leaders. Behind this statistic lies a pattern
of unequal access to power. Drawing on current research and in
conversation with some of the world's most powerful and interesting
women about their lived experience, Gillard and Okonjo-Iweala
explore gender bias and ask how we get more women into leadership
roles. Speaking honestly and freely, women leaders such as Jacinda
Ardern, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Bachelet and Theresa May talk
about their ideas receiving less acknowledgement than their male
colleagues' ideas, what it's like to be body-shamed in the media,
and the things they wish they had done differently. Their stories
reveal how gender and sexism affect perceptions of women as
leaders, their pathways to power and the circumstances in which
their leadership comes to an end. The result is a rare insight into
life as a leader and a powerful call to arms for women everywhere.
A frontline account of how to fight corruption, from Nigeria's
former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. In Fighting Corruption
Is Dangerous, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has written a primer for those
working to root out corruption and disrupt vested interests.
Drawing on her experience as Nigeria's finance minister and that of
her team, she describes dangers, pitfalls, and successes in
fighting corruption. She provides practical lessons learned and
tells how anti-corruption advocates need to equip themselves.
Okonjo-Iweala details the numerous ways in which corruption can
divert resources away from development, rewarding the unscrupulous
and depriving poor people of services. Okonjo-Iweala discovered
just how dangerous fighting corruption could be when her
83-year-old mother was kidnapped in 2012 by forces who objected to
some of the government's efforts at reforms led by Okonjo-Iweala-in
particular a crackdown on fraudulent claims for oil subsidy
payments, a huge drain on the country's finances. The kidnappers'
first demand was that Okonjo-Iweala resign from her position on
live television and leave the country. Okonjo-Iweala did not
resign, her mother escaped, and the program of economic reforms
continued. "Telling my story is risky," Okonjo-Iweala writes. "But
not telling it is also dangerous." Her book ultimately leaves us
with hope, showing that victories are possible in the fight against
corruption.
A frontline account of how to fight corruption, from Nigeria's
former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.In Fighting Corruption
Is Dangerous, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has written a primer for those
working to root out corruption and disrupt vested interests.
Drawing on her experience as Nigeria's finance minister and that of
her team, she describes dangers, pitfalls, and successes in
fighting corruption. She provides practical lessons learned and
tells how anti-corruption advocates need to equip themselves.
Okonjo-Iweala details the numerous ways in which corruption can
divert resources away from development, rewarding the unscrupulous
and depriving poor people of services. Okonjo-Iweala discovered
just how dangerous fighting corruption could be when her
83-year-old mother was kidnapped in 2012 by forces who objected to
some of the government's efforts at reforms led by
Okonjo-Iweala--in particular a crackdown on fraudulent claims for
oil subsidy payments, a huge drain on the country's finances. The
kidnappers' first demand was that Okonjo-Iweala resign from her
position on live television and leave the country. Okonjo-Iweala
did not resign, her mother escaped, and the program of economic
reforms continued. "Telling my story is risky," Okonjo-Iweala
writes. "But not telling it is also dangerous." Her book ultimately
leaves us with hope, showing that victories are possible in the
fight against corruption.
A report on development economics in action, by a crucial player in
Nigeria's recent reforms. Corrupt, mismanaged, and seemingly
hopeless: that's how the international community viewed Nigeria in
the early 2000s. Then Nigeria implemented a sweeping set of
economic and political changes and began to reform the
unreformable. This book tells the story of how a dedicated and
politically committed team of reformers set out to fix a series of
broken institutions, and in the process repositioned Nigeria's
economy in ways that helped create a more diversified springboard
for steadier long-term growth. The author, Harvard- and MIT-trained
economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, currently Nigeria's Coordinating
Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance and formerly
Managing Director of the World Bank, played a crucial part in her
country's economic reforms. In Nigeria's Debt Management Office,
and later as Minister of Finance, she spearheaded negotiations with
the Paris Club that led to the wiping out of $30 billion of
Nigeria's external debt, 60 percent of which was outright
cancellation. Reforming the Unreformable offers an insider's view
of those debt negotiations; it also details the fight against
corruption and the struggle to implement a series of macroeconomic
and structural reforms. This story of development economics in
action, written from the front lines of economic reform in Africa,
offers a unique perspective on the complex and uncertain global
economic environment.
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