2015年12月英语四级听力暑期练习26
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President Barack Obama plans to call for increasedAmerican investment in Africa during his visit toKenya this week. Investment is important forcreating much needed jobs in African countries.Obama administration officials say nearly half of alljobs created in those nations are from smallbusinesses -- many of them owned by women.
So, business programs targeting women can make adifference. In Rwanda, many people suffered inethnic violence more than 20 years ago.
The Rwandan genocide destroyed families - and left many women to provide for themselves.Today, one Rwandan handicraft exporter has changed the lives of thousands of women with thehelp of the United States.
Janet Nkubana and her sister devised a way to help Rwandan women become self-reliant. Theysell their hand-made baskets overseas to large U.S. stores like Macy's through her handicraftexport company, Gahaya Links.
"We have actually empowered 3,000 women in Rwandan communities."
Janet Nkubana credits the 2000 African Growth and Opportunity Act for opening U.S. marketsto African entrepreneurs like her. She also says the government-supported U.S. AfricaDevelopment Foundation gave her money and the training needed to launch her business 10years ago.
Jack Leslie is chairman of the U.S. Africa Development Foundation. He says his organization'saim is to work with underserved people in Africa. He notes that small business creates about 50percent of the jobs on the continent.
"Africa, to give you a sense, only gets about three percent of foreign direct investment."
Mr. Leslie says President Obama's speech in Nairobi at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit willbring the world's attention to a new wave of economic activity in Africa.
"There is a talk of the Silicon savannah in East Africa, which is really showing amazing leaps inmobile technology."
The U.S. African Development Foundation is working with large American companies like GeneralElectric to provide electricity to more Africans. Jay Ireland is chief executive officer of GE Africa.He says Africa offers a lot of potential for investment. But he says having good roads, portsand other infrastructure is very important to economic growth.
"It's going to be absolutely critical to have power. And they need that to attractmanufacturing, and they need that whether it's mines or oil rigs or shopping malls – they needelectricity."
GE, USADF and others are supporting small businesses to develop ways of providing electricitythat do not require a huge power system. For Janet Nkubana, investing in entrepreneurs,especially women, is key to the economic empowerment of an entire country.
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