Queen Noor of Jordan Quotes

In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.

It's important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change.

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.

I firmly believe that if you help a woman, then you educate a child, you help the family. Because women are very focused on health care and education and on the family. So if you help a woman, you help the family, you help the village, you help the country. And so empowering women is a very important part of moving, not just women forward, but the economy of the nation forward. Particularly in very substandard nations.

Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been lifted out of poverty with the creation of robust middle classes in India and China, which is an enormously positive development for those countries that also creates opportunities for the rest of the world.

If you don't invest in the woman, empower her, give her the things she needs to lift her family up, you're just not going to make the progress that you want to make. But if you put her at the centre, you can change a lot for that family, and it has ripple effects through the economy.

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's education in places like Pakistan... a lot of women in these emerging countries are taking charge and doing amazing things.

Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.

Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.

Economic development is a great pacifying force.

It is a hard, tough time now in the Middle East, and it is up to people to change things.—not only by changing regimes and political stuff, but also by believing in women.

Boosting STEM education opportunities for young women globally is one critical way that the U.S. can promote women's equality, as well as economic development, around the world.

Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.

There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.

When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.

The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.

It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work

When women participate in politics, the effects ripple out across society... Women are the world's most underused resource.

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.